Changing Covid Standards For Stage Shows
Stage shows are good for people, but they’re even better for respiratory viruses. In person theater shows are… best experienced with an audience close to each other best inside a closed environment best if there isn’t lots of air circulating best if everyone’s having fun and laughing and breathing best if we’re not nervous about […]
Nichier and Nichier
There’s this site called record setter which became the largest database of world records quickly overwhelming Guinness by allowing anyone – mostly unmoderated – to post their own world record. It wasn’t that people were suddenly achieving more incredible things, it was that the categories got more specific. A person didn’t have to juggle the […]
Entertainment Microbiome
The way I hear it, when we eat stuff, there are a bunch of little life forms (more bacteria cells in us than human cells) that eat our food and help us digest it. When we eat a bunch of sugar, the ones that like sugar thrive and reproduce while the ones that don’t like […]
Dingles
I don’t like to think of myself as an idiot. Not that I don’t make mistakes. I try to keep track of the type of words I use. I make lots of mistakes. I think a way to improve the phrase “Everyone makes mistakes” would be “Everyone makes lots of mistakes all the time.” We […]
The Two Parts of Productivity
I got really into productivity. I read so many blogs and books and tried so many systems that eventually, I had to admit I wasn’t making my life more efficient. I was making it less. Productivity study became my hobby. My understanding of it helps me today. It’s not my hobby anymore. All that learning […]
Rock Bottom
Some things, especially the things we care most about are difficult. Starting is hard, but then following thru over a long period, is nearly impossible. That’s why so few people have great acts, that’s why so few bands create great albums. The follow thru is rough. In addiction programs, the addiction is so linked to […]
The Audience Doesn’t Want You (especially online)
Audiences want themselves. Audiences want a story for themselves. They don’t care about the thing we care about until we bridge that gap and somehow communicate that “This is yours” We, as audience members, are grateful when we know just how to react. Give us a reaction shot. Movies and TV show the person listening […]
Tangential KPIs
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are super helpful for tracking progress, making progress, and feeling like something is getting done. It’s very hard for solopreneurs and freelancers to keep track and stay accountable to their KPIs. It’s also hard sometimes to feel in control of things like income and set a goal like “I will make […]
Some Things Need To Die
We don’t need to protect the arts. We don’t need to protect specific arts. We can let things die. We can let go of what’s not working anymore. Arts aren’t one of those things. They’re still serving us. They’re still valued. Don’t worry about it. And, if something’s not serving us, we can let it […]
The SINGLE Best Price For Entertainment
Usually I’m an advocate for high value services. We find out true solutions that the client / customer needs and we create a package of services with extreme value. Then, we give them a price that’s below the value of the thing. These prices can fluctuate a lot and they’re based on us listening, planning, […]
Our Heroes’ Greatest Successes Were Failures
Everyone who did something great, something beyond… What they did was wrong. What they did didn’t fit in with what people expected or what people were looking for. It was a failure from many perspectives. Many innovations take a long time to get acceptance because they are so easily seen as failures. They are failures. […]
3 Business Skills Show-Folk Need To Constantly Hone
Entertainment pros like me come from a world of normal people. We connect with, and are possibly raised by people who work at jobs. The whole marvelous universe of freelance / entrepreneur lifestyle has mega challenges that can cause lots of burnout, disappointment, and loss of flow. While everyone else is enjoying their weekend, we’re […]