Ranking Marketing Buzzwords by How Much I Want to Yeet Them Into the Sun
by Ken Hollow, marketing burnout survivor and professional buzzword assassin Look, I love marketing as much as the next exhausted digital marketer who can’t tell…
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Burnout Diaries
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Why SEO Advice Online Is Either Useless or Written by Satan
by Ken Hollow, ranking #157 for the keyword “despair” Let me set the scene: it’s 2:37AM. I’m hunched over my laptop in a bathrobe that…
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I Googled My Headache and Now I Have 14 Hours to Live
By Ken Hollow, professional overthinker with 99 problems and at least 73 of them are imaginary It started, as these things often do, with a…
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AI Took My Job (And Then Asked for a Raise)
by Ken Hollow, unemployed by choice (but mostly by algorithm) Let me tell you about the moment I knew my career was over: it was…
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Why Everyone Suddenly Wants to ‘Touch Grass’ (And Why I’m Still Inside)
By Ken Hollow, Professional Indoorsman & Existential Botanophobe There’s a phrase echoing through the cursed halls of the internet lately: “Go touch grass.” It used…
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I Tried Living Like a Digital Nomad for a Day (And It Broke Me)
By Ken Hollow, aspiring lifestyle blogger, accidental disaster tourist. It all started with a tweet. “Quit your job, move to Bali, work from your laptop,…
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Being Perceived Online Is Exhausting (But I Keep Doing It Anyway)
By Ken Hollow, professional ghost on LinkedIn and full-time internet burnout. Every morning I wake up, open my eyes, and immediately remember that I exist…
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Parasocial Relationships: Why I Feel Closer to VTubers Than My Actual Friends
By Ken Hollow, professional fox spirit babysitter, and part-time parasocial wreck. There was a moment last week when I realized something was… off. I had…
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Blogging in 2025: What Still Works (Besides Crying)
By Ken Hollow, your favorite digital disaster turned full-time blog exorcist. There was a time when blogging felt like the internet’s quaint little hobby. Write…
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How to Build a Personal Brand Without Losing Your Mind (Or Your Wi-Fi)
By Ken Hollow, who definitely has a brand. (It’s chaos.) There comes a time in every burnt-out marketer’s life when someone says the fateful words:…