Transcript
Hello everyone welcome to another daily gem today's the episode for monday february 26 2024 this is way late or way early the next day, uh today i wanted to talk about there's a lot of things actually um but i don't feel in the right space to talk about some of them so i'll talk about them later um on another day but today i want to talk about.
How sometimes fear can make us do things we don't even realize.
So I spent a lot of the last couple days pretty heads down in coding.
And for those who don't know, I've done coding on and off since I was in college. Gosh, it's been, when did I take the first class? 2004? Wow, it's been 20 years of coding, even more. Yeah, yeah, on and off. Anyways, and so I've been working on trying to get a way to make what they call audiograms. Basically, these short videos that have subtitles and just words going through. And they highlight as you go some of you may have seen some that i've already made so there's a website that does them pretty quick but i didn't want to pay for the website and also was trying to figure out how to do it in a more automated way directly from my site and i spent a lot of time, learning a new programming language called react which is not that new but new to me really diving into a framework that can create videos pretty automatically.
And I just, I'm wondering why.
Why have I spent so much time? There's already a program that kind of does it. It's like 20 bucks a month. It's not too crazy.
And I think a lot of it's actually fear, ironically. I think I have, okay, one is the desire for automation. I have that engineering part in me. But two, I really do think fear plays a role. I think I fear that people may not listen to the podcast.
That I would put so much energy and effort into all these conversations, and then unless I have video, nobody knows it exists, and it's just not going to spread. And so I need to have some video of at least words. if I'm not going to do actual video production. So maybe that'll help it spread. It's just a fear that the conversations themselves can't carry an audience.
And I don't know why I have that fear, because I actually think conversations are quite good, and I think there are a lot of podcasts who don't really do too many videos or they don't do too much social media sharing or maybe they do, I don't know. I don't understand the whole marketing, advertising part of it. I think I'm just afraid that to put myself out there.
And just hear crickets kind of go into the void and so I don't know, maybe part of it's just the fear of, oh everyone else does it this way so this is how I have to do it but maybe I don't I'm tired I'm tired of coding I mean it's fun in a way but it's fun to get it done, and I actually really like conversations I like doing these not at a crazy hour where I can barely talking to the phone um and so yeah I mean I say sometimes it's because of fear because I didn't realize that I was doing this stuff out of fear it's fear of you know doing fundraising it's fear of putting the podcast out there it's fear of people not paying attention it's fear of of people not trying it out. It's fear of not knowing if people are listening or not. There's a lot of fear in there. And sometimes I think it's easy to go back into the things that we.
Uh the comfortable challenges instead of the challenges that make us a little more uncomfortable, so i'm gonna go to sleep i hope you all appreciate this kind of slap happy late, chat and i hope to do more a little earlier and maybe i'll just pay for that silly service so so that I don't go crazy over trying to come up with this software for now, so I can do more conversations and just get the conversations out there and trust. Sometimes it's just about, I think, trusting that it'll work out even if it doesn't work out.
To do things the way that we want to do them instead of the way that we think we're supposed to do them, because that's how everyone else does it. All right.
Buen mi, buenas noches, gutenacht, usse kumbwema, and all these other phrases for sleep well. Good night.
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