2023-06-08 day note
- Today’s newsletter has just a few links, some quirky quotes, and a list of upcoming conferences I’ll be speaking at or attending.
- My newsletter crossed 600 subscribers this week. Fun! I’ve been trying to build up a more stable place to publish now that social media is FUCKING CRAZY and BLOGS ARE DEAD, and it’s working pretty well.
- I’ve been trying to come up with some new talks for awhile now. I’m drawing a blank - a form of writer’s block, I guess. I see so many other talks and I’m either just bored with them, or think they’re cheap TED-tricks. I like talks that give me tools to use after watching them, not just vibes or thoughts. I keep thinking I need to remember that I’m not the audience for my talks though. I see so many of those vibes and mindset talks from people I like who are in the same - I don’t know - “area” as I am. Maybe I just need to do that.
- I made two videos today, one that’s scheduled to post tomorrow. Making little videos is very satisfying. I’m good enough at it that it’s doable, still challenging, and involves a lot of creative choices. Also, they’re valuable for my work.
- Unlike podcasts (which I’ve listened to daily for, like, I don’t know, before they were called podcasts in the early 2000s), I don’t actually watch a lot of videos. I don’t like videos so much. I must have some weird production aesthetic, or a childish one. I use Descript to edit them, which means there’s a transcript (I don’t usually correct the transcript for the longer ones). It’s a pretty good video editors - Descript definitely fits to how an amateur video editor would think. For example, it’s all timeline based: you don’t build up buckets of clips that you then assemble together.