Currently trying to balance the right amount of “yeah”, “right”, “sure” from the co-host while the other person is talking on a two person podcast episode. It can help to have a “yeah” almost as a comma to give the listener a pause, but it can be distracting if there’s too many.
Any small business owners out there have advice for hiring an employee vs sub-contractor, and especially as it relates to a Canadian solo business hiring an American?
Thanks to the way one of my clients publishes their episodes, I know that this represents my birthday. 1660910400400 (No, it’s not today.)
Speaking of ghouls, not a good look Apple.
Everything's Gonna Be Alright
From today’s issue of Craig Mod’s Seven days of walking Tokyo popup newsletter, a message to the younger version of himself when he first arrived in Tokyo:
I don’t know how I’d convey this, but I’d want that kid to know: He didn’t have to black himself out all the time, that things would get better. That the hole in which he felt so stuck wasn’t as deep as it seemed, and that good people would come into his orbit given time and effort. That he was directionally correct — the impulse to eschew an office job for independent work — but that that road was long and lonely and it would take ages to start paying dividends.
This melds nicely with the emotion of constant ringing in my ears of the Black Panther 2 trailer’s mix of Tems cover of Bob Marley’s “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” into Kendrick Lamar’s Alright.
Old white men continue to run roughshod over everything to attempt to stay relevant and in control. But I hold on to the hope that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Finished reading: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells 📚
If, like me, you’ve only been seeing southern skies in Saskatoon and wondering what the storm warning is all about, might want to look out a north facing window. ☁️ 🌧️
Each week when working in Final Cut Pro I inch closer and closer to that “continue” button on a Mac Studio, but then something happens like “a kid needs braces” or “credit card bill arrived” and I stop myself. #moneymoneymoney
I have amazing clients who do include me in helping create their thing as much as they can, but there’s something about creating your own thing and putting it into the world that I miss when I’m deep in client work.
Doing dumb TikToks is a quick, temporary fix. 😊
Somehow this full set of the Harry Potter audiobooks made it past the crack legal team at Apple Podcasts. 😂 🧙♂️
I love that the internet has enabled someone like @craigmod to be able to do what he does. I don’t totally know what it is exactly that he does, but I still think it’s cool that he’s able to do it because of the internet.
Yet another reason I ❤️ @TransistorFM for podcast hosting - they now support importing ID3v2 chapter markers to episodes.
Unfortunately it’s on the cutting room floor, but “Survey Mon-kay” almost became the new “MailKimp”. 😝