Micael Widell Newsletter #63
Captain's log
It’s been a few weeks since my decision to stop working full time on my photography channel, and instead start working on my new life advice channel.
Since then, I have spent some time researching and pondering what my new channel should be. How should I have the most fun possible? What kind of topics should I focus on? How should I stand out from competitors?
I have also moved into and decorated my new office/studio space.
It feels fantastic to finally have my very own office outside of home. A room for work and only work, which I can close the door to and not be interrupted. A place where I can have a permanent camera rig for talking head videos, so that I can just sit down and press record whenever I feel like it.
I have decided that my project for the next few months will be to publish at least 50 videos on my new youtube channel, to see if it can gain any traction. If I see no substantial traction in 50 videos, I will probably pivot the concept of the channel, or try something completely different.
Only a few videos in, I have started seeing some moderate traction – it looks promising so far!
The channel concept, for now, is talking head videos where I give all sorts of unsolicited life advice.
What about the Photography channel?
It is not going to completely die. At least that is how I feel at the moment. I think I will probably continue enjoying photography (and making photography videos) going forward, but more as a hobby than as my main focus. I just made a video about Polaroid cameras, go check it out.
But the truth is that my obsession with photography, which lasted around 7 years, has died – and will likely never be as intense ever again.
I have had other obsessions in the past. Entrepreneurship, computers, web design and programming, to name a few. They all came and went. I still have an interest in all these things, but after mastering all of them to a certain extent, the magic went away.
The same thing seems to have happened now with photography for me. It lost its magic. But I don't feel sad about it. Now I feel mostly excited to try something new, while leveraging everything I learned about making Youtube videos and succeeding on Youtube.
Goodbye for now
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/Micael