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Yesterday, I posted an instagram video that sat on my computer since February.
According to the metric I cared about at the time, it’s a bad video.
It’s badly lit. The shots don’t match. It’s not visual enough.
So I shelved it to reshoot the same thing later.
But later never came.
Yesterday, the lightning bolt struck. Do it anyways.
The video is about creating with friends.
I wanted it to be a gateway to creating more with friends.
I threw it online and wrote that as a caption—let’s make the next one together.
I used to get 50,000+ views on videos.
This one couldn’t hit 2,000.
But it got eleven comments from friends saying, “I’m in.”
The video was always about the friends I made along the way.
I just forgot.
I can’t imagine where I’d end up if I started in February, but I won’t have to imagine where I’d end up if I started in August.
If you are feeling a creative tug, do the thing.
Post the crap.
And if you live in LA - come to my final public speaker workshop (Wednesday the 20th at 6pm in Venice) where we’ll build out a content strategy for you, and connect you with a group of people to push each other.
Let’s get it dawgs,
O
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