The Creative Shift by Dan Blank

The Creative Shift by Dan Blank

How to find joy and purpose in social media again

On making creative inspiration and true human connection central to how you share

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Dan Blank
May 08, 2026
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So many writers who want to share their work and grow a readership feel that social media is too overwhelming to approach. They worry that:

  • There is a treadmill of content creation that they have to get on.

  • The things that work are the things they don’t want to do.

  • The algorithm has overtaken so much of what they see when they browse social media, and why …

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