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Editing. It’s something I think about a lot. Too much. I’m in the middle of writing a YouTube script about it and I’m including a story about meeting a group of creatives where my contribution was whining about how much I hate editing. It was one of those moments where no one else shared my…

How many photos did you take last year? I got a warning about our family iCloud storage a few weeks ago. I’m not sure what the average person does… incrementally increase their plan? I refuse to pay more in subscription fees. So I immediately decree a family-wide culling before searching by year and “exporting unmodified…

2025 was a surprising year of growth. For someone my age, growth is usually linked to external things: Money, kids, Back yards. But this is the year (a very random year in my forties) that I felt like I personally and creatively grew the most since possibly my early 20s. I’m a filmmaker and photographer,…

1. Slow Growth Builds Community My second-to-last video is two months old and blew past all of my other videos views-wise. Like, it’s good, and people say I’m “killing it” but it always makes me anxious when videos move beyond the community we’ve built. I have to give up on comments for my own sanity….

Idea: Learning to say No creates a better Yes Circa 2001 Jesse (from a soap opera spoof) modelling how to say “no” for current Jesse This year has been weird. I learned how to say “No”. Took me so long. Too long. If you’re a useful, creative person people will find ways to use you…