Intermixing Linearity
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Progress on the behind the scenes post is good so far. It will be out next week. Maybe not Monday, but next week for sure.
I've been toying with the idea of a commentary track type video where I just go through the essay and talk about bits and bobs along the way. That'd go up on the main channel; speaking of which...
After a solid piece of unsolicited advice and a few deep conversations surrounding the topic, I have gone ahead and changed the YouTube channel names around. My original, 10+ year old YouTube account is back to @MaxFrequency. The new, essay-only channel is will be @MaxRobertsEssays and named "Max Roberts" (I just have to wait 12 more days to switch it back without my signature "143" at the end. Whoops. 😅)
Digging into the surrounding conversations would probably take a whole other letter (and I had something else I really wanted to touch on this time). In summation, I never liked renaming my original channel. It felt like some sort of betrayal, in a weird way. I made the switch for branding, not creativity.
The essay channel is a fresh start for these types of videos and a fresh start deserves a fresh name. Thanks to the pals that helped me realize this decision, you know who you are.
The aforementioned "something else" is all about playing a researching. When my BtS post is complete, I plan on diving into my next essay. But I have ideas for other essays that I also want to work on. I have lots of games I'd like to play for said essays. I need to research different things for said essays. There are lots of balls in the air and I am not a juggler by trade.
I think of the project in a linear fashion—play, research, write, record, edit, publish. I spend all my time on one step and don't move onto the next until the one is complete. If I want to speed up my creativity, I have to multitask in some way. I need to intermix; make bits of progress across all the columns, Kanban-style. I'm trying out the Projects plugin for Obsidian. It's going to require a bit of a different approach to how I organize my essay notes, but I think being able to visualize the spread of my essays could help me learn to juggle. I'll report back in the future.
Until next time...
This letter is one block from the newsletter Memory Card by Max Roberts. Thoughts? Send me an email at max@maxfrequency.net.
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