Category: Ken’s Corner of Concern
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By Ken Hollow, reluctant novelist of corporate fiction Performance reviews are supposed to measure your work. In reality, they’re creative writing assignments where everyone pretends. You pretend you’ve “grown.” Your manager pretends they’ve “coached.” HR pretends this whole charade matters. It’s fiction — bad fiction — written under fluorescent lighting. The Self-Assessment Saga The first…
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By Ken Hollow, unwilling PR casualty and buzzword hostage Press releases are the cockroaches of corporate communication. Eternal, indestructible, and impossible to kill. Every company insists they need one, even though no one reads them except journalists who skim for quotes to mock and interns forced to format them in Word. But the real crime?…
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By Ken Hollow, unwilling event planner and professional scapegoat Corporate retreats are already a nightmare. Trust falls, awkward icebreakers, and “vision alignment workshops” designed to make you cry in a hotel ballroom. But now? Add a fox spirit influencer with a flair for theatrics, and you get the kind of chaos that makes HR spontaneously…
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By Ken Hollow, unwilling stream tech and chaos manager Here’s a sentence I never wanted to say: I am now the livestream producer for a fox spirit influencer who thinks buffering is a personal insult. Yes, Nana has decided that the world must see her live. Not pre-recorded. Not edited. Not safely tucked away behind…
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By Ken Hollow, podcast producer by blackmail Let me start by saying: I don’t hate podcasts. I hate this podcast. The podcast that was never supposed to happen. The one my fox spirit client, Nana Vix, manifested into existence with a combination of soft threats, velvet cooing, and one very cursed crystal mic she claimed…
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By Ken Hollow, professional overthinker and part-time emoji decoder Feedback is supposed to be constructive. Helpful. Collaborative. Instead, it’s often delivered in the most emotionally ambiguous format possible: the single “LOL.” When a client replies “LOL” to something I’ve sent, my brain doesn’t hear laughter. My brain hears: 🔹 The Problem With Digital Tone Tone…
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By Ken Hollow, freelance chameleon and reluctant trend hopper Every Monday, I check my analytics like a responsible content creator who pretends to enjoy numbers. And every Monday, the platforms collectively decide I am no longer the person I was last week. Last week? Oh, I was a motivational lifestyle guru. The week before that?…
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By Ken Hollow, now officially the unpaid brand ambassador for AI GPT-5 is here. The internet’s buzzing, tech bros are frothing, and I just watched three YouTube thumbnails promise it will “change EVERYTHING.” And to be fair… it might. It can write better than your average LinkedIn “thought leader,” code entire apps faster than you…
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There’s a romanticized image of “working in digital marketing” that gets passed around on LinkedIn — all minimalist coffee shops, sleek laptops, and people in turtlenecks nodding thoughtfully over pie charts. In this fantasy, you spend your days “driving engagement” and “leveraging data,” occasionally pausing to sip an oat latte and update your personal brand…
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By Ken Hollow, algorithmically ghosted and emotionally contagious You ever post something, watch it tank, and then immediately question every life choice that led you to this moment? Yeah. That’s me. Twice a week. Every post dies.Every reel flops.Every story reply is a spam bot or someone DMing me about their course. Meanwhile, the only…