Local Subway Proclivity

Every workday I take the NQRW line between 34th St Herald Square to 14th St Union Square at this hour. I can happily say this is the only time I’ve ever preferred the local train to the express train.

Why?

More time to write the blog! I love starting the blog on the N and by the time I’m off the L the blog is complete.

Today I’m in an interesting spot editing my most recent pasta video.

Ok I just transferred trains and a new thought came to mind. Appreciate the little things. Every single time I board the L train towards Brooklyn at this hour a guy plays a very loud electric guitar in the main area. I used to think it was weird but the consistency of it made me love it. Makes me smile every time.

Back to the topic.

One thing I’m currently going to sleep on is weaving interview dialogue into the video. The hard part (but best part) about YouTube, especially the style of videos I’m looking to put out, is to make sure the viewer doesn’t get bored. The reason why this format is so good is it enables a small creator like me to reach a large audience even without that many followers. If the website notices people are watching a lot of my video (aka not getting bored), they will show the video to more people. You don’t need to spend $ in advertisement!

What’s interesting is my style is more TikToky in terms of punchiness than the traditional Eater / Business Insider / Tasty videos that dominate Food YouTube.

With regards to my content, I often conduct several videos throughout the course of a video shoot. I think the interviews themselves contain such great content but I often have to cut 90% of them to ensure the viewer remains interested in the video, even in these long form videos. This always conflicts me and makes me wonder if I should release interviews via Podcast, but at this moment it feels like a distraction from what I’m really trying to do (get LF views), so I hold back. Maybe one day….

I also intentionally get off this L train a stop late. Gives me extra time to write. Getting off now :/ Almost done.

20 minutes later

The real battle today I fought was not about this edit. Now thinking about it..urge to check email. I started a new outreach campaign for my event video business and I couldn’t stop checking my messages. The benefit of this was being a quick responder but I lost roughly 60 minutes of productive editing time due to message checks. I have to be better here and keep it controlled.

Alright Too Duh Loo (definitely not correct spelling).

-Jack