BETA MAX

Safe to say I’m not Lex Fridman but boy did I do mind map after mind squiggle seeking the new sound. I feel like I squeezed the end of the toothpaste just to create my Beta in this life clusterfluff we (I) are in. I’m several furlongs behind where I pictured myself at this stage but the time lords have spoken and this is where I am at, in the eleventh hour.

This vid provides an ineloquent delineation of my prototypes thus far. My iterations incorporating my user feedback which is by enlarge an audience of one is touched upon here.

In terms of social utility. The good, the bad and reality are as follows. I created podcasts, period. And placed them slightly outside of my own vacuum. The response was void of any negative feedback so via omission they cannot have been a complete train wreck. The core frame work is there, I have learnt ALOT and added extra skills to my quiver. The reality is they need continuous editing as new skills emerge and reframing is engaged. Interviewing my friends is tricky as my community largely dwells in another hemisphere, also being apart from what I call home, made me feel like an imposter. Time difference and tech have swindled some of my other planned episodes. That said the current pods don’t breach any copyright and I can listen to them with a level of enjoyment. This is a minor #FTW.

Failures and setbacks include being dead on arrival, everytime I scripted something, I listened to something better and shot myself in the foot. Again. I don’t work well alone (at this stage). Starting something with huge expectation is a sure fire way to miss your target. Getting vaccinated terrified me, having braces made me unable to record my voice some weeks. I have felt utterly outside of my regular semblance of self which hurt my creativity and flow. Should I have just done something I know, yoga vids or cocktail creation? Yes and no, for me learning lies in the unknown, sticky and scary places.

This subject like so many things this year has been completely off script. Brilliant, but certainly a deviated narrative to what I envisioned. At this point I had planned to interview a bunch more of my friends and set up my buzzsprout account in a better manner, get acquainted with hashtags and bite into regular content creation which is the key to ongoing attention from users. I think. I am genuinely excited to have a project for the summer break but for now I’m squeezing out one more idea; which is achievable because it requires no interviewing and seems to offer the potential of ongoing episodes.