Upasna Gautam
Product manager in news; at CNN Digital in 2023, building its newsroom content management system, later in non-profit local journalism; a longtime meditation coach and board member of the News Product Alliance.
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Their wordsSometimes getting past the difficulty means missing what it could have taught them, a distinction that becomes inconvenient precisely because both experiences can feel like relief.
↗Friction is the Sacred Site of Transformationupasnagautam.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWriting makes this difficult to avoid. You have to connect the sentences which means the gaps become visible. Those twenty minutes of deleting and starting again can tell you more about your argument than the previous two days of feeling pleased with it.
↗Friction is the Sacred Site of Transformationupasnagautam.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut listen to what we’re asking of someone who isn’t already invested. Before we have introduced them to a single person, taken them anywhere, or helped them understand something happening down the street, we are asking them to accept responsibility for the survival of an industry.
↗Anthony Bourdain Showed Us How to Make People Give a Shit. Journalism Has A Lot To Learn From It.upasnagautam.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Journalism too often lets people supply the emotion while outside experts supply the meaning.
Their wordsWay too often, journalism introduces someone just long enough to make a story feel human, then hands the explanation over to an “expert.” The person who lives there gets to supply the emotion but someone else gets to supply the meaning. Outsourcing the meaning = big problem.
↗Anthony Bourdain Showed Us How to Make People Give a Shit. Journalism Has A Lot To Learn From It.upasnagautam.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe trouble starts when protecting the plan becomes more important than finding out whether it works.
↗Everyone Wants Critical Thinkers. Until They Disagree.upasnagautam.substack.com