Some of us marched; some of us planted gardens, and some of us turned new perspectives into new endeavors. What did you do during the 2020 pandemic? (I hear my future grandchildren asking.)
On Mondays during the last quarter of 2020, I began publishing mini-essays on LinkedIn. Some were purposeful. Some were playful. Some bordered on the inspired (maybe).
This effort was separate from my Pandemic-related blogs and website content:
- 5 Steps to Pandemic-Sensitive Content (May 2020)
- A Content Intervention Checklist (August 2020)
These professional missives instead poked at, prodded, and pondered the role of the content professional during turbulence – in a project, in an enterprise, and in the world at large.
I share the more content-centric snippets here.
Sometimes I pondered questions aloud in hopes that answers would be forthcoming:
Sometimes I wrote about interesting topics from conferences I attended:
Most of the time, I seem to have pondered and then offered an answer to my own questions:
And sometimes, I reflected on a painful professional moment from my past:
Where did these reflections leave me? Sometimes I wanted to say more, hear more, discuss more. But, to be honest, sometimes they left me with a writer’s block that took days to overcome. I try not to over-analyze, knowing that I can find inspiration from the many sources around me. But I do believe that pandemic politics, particularly toward the end of 2020 took its toll. So I am admitting here that sometimes the noise of threat and fear can be overwhelming.
Here’s to more opportunities for reflection in 2021!
To see a complete list of my 4 months of Monday mini-essays, review my LinkedIn article “Pandemic Mondays in Perspective.” Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debkahn or on Twitter: @dkconsultco.
