Recognizing is not remembering – what we’re “learning” on YouTube and other social videos instantly slips through the porous reservoir of our brains.

If you’re not doing, and are waiting for the right amount of info: you’ve studied enough. For now. Build your practice. Find out how you create.

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…