Don't Tell My Mom I Wrote This
Feeling burnt out and creatively drained? Microdosing can reignite your imagination and break the cycle of soul-numbing work.
You sit there. Blank doc. Cursor blinking like a dare. Another campaign, another fake-happy hook to wrap around a product no one ever wanted.
You used to be creative. Remember that? When ideas came out sideways, weird, real? Not this recycled, brand-safe, soul-numbed garbage.
You feel like burnt toast.
Crusty, bitter, dry.
You keep tossing back your glass, but it’s been empty for a long time now.
…and then someone at a party says, "Have you tried microdosing?"
You laugh.
It sounds like a tech bro thing, a Silicon Valley hustle-hack.
But here’s the truth (she says, having gotten the hang of things)—microdosing isn’t about working harder. It’s about seeing differently.
Tiny doses, sub-perceptual.
Not tripping, not melting into your office chair.
You can answer emails.
You can pick up your kids.
But something’s shifted.
A softness. A spark.
Like your imagination forgot how easy it is to bend metal, like there’s no spoon and there never was.
You start noticing stuff. Patterns. Connections. Weird little ideas that don’t suck, stuff that floats through your mind all the time but usually disappears faster than you can catch it.
You stop doom-scrolling.
You start imagining.
Colors feel richer, copy comes easier. You catch yourself smiling—for no good reason.
You remember why you wanted to do this in the first place. Not for the metrics. Not for the engagement. For the expression. The contact. The art of saying something real into a world that’s forgotten what reality feels like.
Because let’s be honest: social media is a performance art trapped in a spreadsheet.
And microdosing? It’s a pivot table that turns the whole thing on its side. A crack opens. Air gets in, enough air to remind you that you're not a robot. You’re a human with instincts, with vision and voice.
This isn’t about taking drugs to be cool.
It’s about reclaiming your imagination in a business that tries to kill it with every approval cycle.
It’s about writing that post from your gut, not with your attention half-distracted by the analytics dashboard.
It’s about giving a shit again, about making stuff that moves people instead of just trying to cattle-car them.
You want to create something that hits, something that makes someone stop mid-scroll and feel something?
Then maybe it’s time to stop chasing trends and start chasing truth.
Microdosing isn’t magic.
It’s not a shortcut.
It’s a tool, a fire-starter in the soggy woods of your creativity.
So use it wisely and intentionally.
But maybe—just maybe—use it.
Or… keep playing it safe.
Keep churning out the same old swipe file shit and tell your boss it counts as engagement.