Floating Threads

We are just about a third's way into the year, and it's about time I say this: 2022 is the year of based-on-a-true-story limited series about business scandals. Seriously, just look at all that has been yielded so far! Netflix's Inventing Anna involves a foreign protagonist faking her way through USA to fund a foundation. Hulu's The Dropout is about a female CEO whose promising healthcare venture fell down from fraud. Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout  (left) and Julia Garner as Anna Delvey Sorokin in Inventing Anna  (right) (Goodness, the similarity between these two posters is uncanny!) Showtime's Super Pumped centres on the incident of a rideshare company's board upon its inception. And Apple TV+'s WeCrashed tells the story of how the notorious couple behind WeWork...well, crashed. Why should we care about these stories now? Especially this year in particular, when society is entering a post-pandemic world. Let's look at two of t

 So, it's my last year of high school. And I have decided to do a podcast for my Capstone Project. I know that may sound crazy, but trust me, it's such a great idea, I literally googled "how to do a podcast as a capstone project" just to see if other high school students have done it. Of course, a couple of students have done podcasts as their Capstone projects as far as I could look, but not from my school.  Still, I came up with the idea because I had been sitting on the idea of making a podcast for such a long time (I even tried making a podcast episode based on an earlier blog post three years ago, but that's not out there for the world to see).  Great, now I just had one other question to answer: What should the podcast be about? I jotted down on a few ideas, until, aha, I know what this podcast should be about: creativity! And it makes perfect sense, not just because a podcast itself can be a sort of creative project, but also, for a long time, I had thought