Weekly Update #005

Hello all,

I feel as though my "niche", per say, is being uniquely at the intersection between business/technology and art/media. I feel like for the most part these two sides have always been at odds with one another, especially recently with the debate around NFTs and art generation.

On my blog, I often call out the BS of one side or another, as the nuance of an issue often fails to hit if you're entrenched in one side. But at the same time, as a creator, I see opportunities to combine these two categories in ways I don't see many others doing. I've talked about iterative publishing before, as an example -- this is something that would not have been possible pre-internet, back when monolithic publishers released monolithic apps (in this case: books, games, albums, etc.). I think as of right now it is underappreciated -- it really is only done in games, and even then is considered controversial due to some bad actors in the early years. But I think the future will go by this new iterative format.

I'm also thinking of multimedia storytelling in a new light now. Last week I discussed TikTok, and while before I couldn't really think of ways that I could create content for such a platform (30-second videos when I make writing that takes hours to read...) I've realized that there's a lot of ways you can approach all of this, much of which people haven't explored. Sometimes it takes awhile to figure out, and you have to try/retry different mechanisms and experiments (ask my Instagram followers) but eventually you can hit that sweet spot where you can 1) give something of value, 2) have it be easily digestible in that format, and 3) be relatively easy to produce. I think those 3 are the key to setting up anything long-term and worthwhile on a platform, and from there you can just experiment and see where it leads you.