Why No Livestream? Avoiding Mission Creep and Preventing Cinestance

WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:12.150 Daily emotions for November twenty four. Today I was thinking about a lot of 2 00:00:12.189 --> 00:00:15.910 times people say, Hey, why don't you do why don't you live stream, 3 00:00:16.109 --> 00:00:20.390 like as in video? Sometimes people say why don't you go live etc. 4 00:00:21.899 --> 00:00:24.620 And a lot of it has to do with the fact that I wanted 5 00:00:24.699 --> 00:00:29.820 to do a podcast. So I'm doing a podcast, podcast, audio. 6 00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:37.490 And a lot of people fall victim to this thing called mission creep where, 7 00:00:37.689 --> 00:00:42.170 instead of focusing on the thing they intended to start, say a podcast, 8 00:00:43.130 --> 00:00:46.770 they start adding things. Oh and we can also do this, we can 9 00:00:46.850 --> 00:00:49.850 have a we can put video, we can do a video and Oh, 10 00:00:49.890 --> 00:00:53.079 we can have a merch line and then we can maybe take it on to 11 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:57.520 or and go play in bars and clubs. So this is what is called 12 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:02.159 mission creep, and project management, where your one thing is to do the 13 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.629 thing you started to do. Killer, perfect, great, exceptional. With 14 00:01:06.829 --> 00:01:11.750 mission creep, people stop focusing on the thing they intended to do and start 15 00:01:11.750 --> 00:01:15.030 adding tasks. So this causes two things to happen. It delays the project, 16 00:01:15.590 --> 00:01:19.620 which is no Bueno, and project management, you don't want to delay 17 00:01:19.620 --> 00:01:23.659 a project because the client wanted and paid for that one thing. So when 18 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:27.579 your mission starts to creep, you're starting to add cost you're starting to like 19 00:01:27.739 --> 00:01:33.689 just confuse the the whole project in general. And the second thing that typically 20 00:01:33.689 --> 00:01:37.650 happens is quality suffers. So if somebody is not willing to put in the 21 00:01:37.769 --> 00:01:42.569 time to do the first thing they had planned to do well and then instead 22 00:01:42.730 --> 00:01:48.480 starts adding additional tasks or features of the project, they're not going to do 23 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.280 those well either. So what happens is people want to start a podcast and, 24 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:57.040 instead of focusing on quality audio and working on their voice, whatever it 25 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.879 means to them, some people want a lot of listeners, some people want 26 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:06.069 sponsors and things like that. So until that's completely great, it's been my 27 00:02:06.189 --> 00:02:09.590 experience that you should keep focusing on that instead of letting your mission creep, 28 00:02:10.110 --> 00:02:15.430 because what happens then is you have a halfass show. So if your audio 29 00:02:15.550 --> 00:02:17.659 wasn't that good on your podcast and then you add video, well, chances 30 00:02:17.699 --> 00:02:21.860 are your video isn't going to be that good either. And if your vocal 31 00:02:21.860 --> 00:02:25.699 quality or your delivery sucked on a simple podcast, well, adding video is 32 00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:30.050 not going to make it any better. You're going to end up with a 33 00:02:30.210 --> 00:02:36.009 halfassed the video show great, just what the world means more of. So 34 00:02:36.169 --> 00:02:39.969 that's reason number one. I don't do video streams or go live or things 35 00:02:40.009 --> 00:02:45.000 like that. Typically is because it's mission creep. I have a focus and 36 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.439 I think it's important, especially for me, to stay focused on the task 37 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.479 at hand, the thing I plan to do. I got to persistent, 38 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.800 keep moving through it until I get it done to my personal liking. But 39 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.509 that was more of an afterthought. The real reason I don't do video is 40 00:03:01.590 --> 00:03:07.430 because I come from a TV background and filmmaking and there's a a tea. 41 00:03:07.509 --> 00:03:12.629 There's a thing in both TV and science. In science there's a thing called 42 00:03:12.710 --> 00:03:17.419 the observer effect, where the thing that you are studying changes simply by the 43 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:24.580 fact that you're observing it. So you think instantly sentient beings like humans observing 44 00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:28.650 other humans. That's one way, but this it can gets down to even 45 00:03:28.650 --> 00:03:34.009 data. If data observes something else, the thing it's observing will react based 46 00:03:34.050 --> 00:03:38.210 on even data looking at it. Point being, The observer effect is not 47 00:03:38.330 --> 00:03:45.039 just humans or animated objects. The Observer effect could be a number of different 48 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:51.520 things that are not animate objects. So, similar to the observer effect in 49 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:57.270 science, there's a thing in the let's call the the art world, creative 50 00:03:57.270 --> 00:04:02.030 arts world called sinnis dance. And so what Sinnis dance is is when the 51 00:04:02.229 --> 00:04:06.710 person performing, or just existing, I guess, is a way to put 52 00:04:06.710 --> 00:04:12.340 it, change is the way they are because they know a camera is watching 53 00:04:12.419 --> 00:04:16.300 them. So my vocal delivery to you through this microphone, because it's audio 54 00:04:16.459 --> 00:04:21.300 only, is completely different than if I knew you were watching me on a 55 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:27.129 video right now. And that's where I think we lose a lot of authenticity, 56 00:04:28.329 --> 00:04:31.089 is because you start seeing people act for the camera. They don't even 57 00:04:31.129 --> 00:04:35.850 know they're acting for the camera, but we inherently change the way we talk, 58 00:04:36.009 --> 00:04:39.839 the way we blink our eyes, hold our mouth, move our hands. 59 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:44.279 We change all of that the moment we know a camera is on us 60 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.240 and unless you're a trained television or film actor, you don't know what to 61 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:55.589 do. So it comes across looking awkward. It's not genuine or authentic looking 62 00:04:55.629 --> 00:04:59.230 at all. It just looks dumb. It looks unprofessional, basically. So 63 00:04:59.629 --> 00:05:02.189 that's the second thing is I don't want mission creep and the second thing here 64 00:05:02.310 --> 00:05:06.660 being the observer effect or Sinnis dance, where I don't want to act differently 65 00:05:06.740 --> 00:05:11.860 or sound differently or present the different show, just because I know a camera 66 00:05:12.019 --> 00:05:17.220 is watching me. So check out those three terms mission creep, observer effect 67 00:05:18.139 --> 00:05:26.490 and SINNIS dance. That's spelled CIANE STA and see. I think it combines 68 00:05:26.610 --> 00:05:30.649 cinema and circumstance. SINNIS dance. Anyway, that's all I got. I 69 00:05:30.730 --> 00:05:34.009 just got to push through and make a new podcast every day. So this 70 00:05:34.209 --> 00:05:41.160 is today's. I'm actually feeling quite shitty and don't even want to be here. 71 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.079 Not here, like I just don't want to exist. But you know, 72 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.839 whatever it is, what it is, they say. Hope you have 73 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:53.430 any great day. I'll talk to you tomorrow, Wednesday. When you feel 74 00:05:53.870 --> 00:06:21.529 lost, don't be low to differs on this will get better. Yes, 75 00:06:47.029 --> 00:06:57.310 when you feel so lost that you don't be low to differ, will get 76 00:06:59.870 --> 00:07:00.870 and now back to the wall.