🤐 "What are you babbling about?"
On trying something because it feels good to try, without getting too caught up in the desired outcome.
Eight days ago, I heard some folks on a podcast I like talk about creating content, doing so with less an obsession over metrics and more of a focus on improving a skillset and having fun along the way.
That's the kind of vibe I'm after.
For any number of reasons, I often feel more like sharing things while I'm on the road. And I must say, dear reader, summers are a time for me to be on the road. Something about hearing this episode, where famed YouTuber Casey Neistat talked about posting for more than 800 days in a row well before that was a thing lots of folks did on social, while I was traveling led to a convergence of sorts.
One video on the intersection or humanity and productivity:
Turned into the next video on the same general topic:
And so on, and so forth:
I'm doing a low-friction version of this, where I don't have to spend a bunch of time preparing, editing, or maintaining. I think that to the extent there's any likelihood of me actually continuing with this, it needs to be something simple and enjoyable.
And part of making something simple and enjoyable means sometimes just flipping on the button that cross-posts from one social media network to another, expanding potential audiences and inviting more randos to see what I'm making.
Enter Gregory Clark, someone I've never connected with before and likely never will again, who commented on today's video (the third one I shared above):
To be honest, Greg (can I call you Greg? I feel like we're at that stage), I'm not entirely sure!
There is indeed a babbling quality to what I'm doing here, which makes it both simpler and more enjoyable for me to create. Similar to this blog, the overall audience will almost certainly never be particularly massive, yet there are some folks who seem to find what I write and create valuable. So I'll keep doing it.
And perhaps most importantly, I find it valuable and have learned a lot throughout the process of making stuff in some form for many years. So I'll keep doing it.
I will keep babbling, one day at a time, at least until I don't want to anymore. And if, against all odds, I do make it 800 days in a row, I feel like both inspirational Casey and equally inspirational Greg owe me some type of present. I've always wanted a pony.
Babblingly Yours,
-Rye