Unscripted: Screw the Should Life

Unscripted: Screw the Should Life

Showing Up Without Applause

What it’s like to keep creating when you don’t know who’s listening.

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Marni Battista
Feb 13, 2026
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Bueller. Anyone?

That’s kind of what this moment feels like.

You know that scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where the teacher keeps calling out,
“Bueller… Bueller… anyone?”

That’s the closest I can get to naming it.

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