I take a lot of notes. Here’s some for you. mildly edited.
BACKSEAT MANIFESTO V3 4-16-24 Valorant players' mental health is horrible. They don't have the cognitive skills to climb as fast and as happily as they could. There aren't enough Valorant creators who teach mentality alongside the experience of the game, especially for women and non-binary people who get harassed every other match.
They don't know how to make a healthy mind, or how to use it to play Valorant They aren't aware they could be using Valorant to improve their mental health
ASK: What do Valorant Players need? to hear? to know? to practice? to have? to realize? to understand? ASK: What Valorant Players aren't getting the tools and information they need? What tools & info?
recognize this could be gone at any moment. If today was my last chance to release content, what would I do? every video I make is an offering to the internet. i hope it helps.
Generate ideas, read, watch, get excited, ask what will help people?
Trim them down with a team, Who is this video for? What is the audience to do about it?
IMPROV 101 4-10-24 Have an internal audience of people in your head that you make jokes for people you know very well, or have had a lot of laughs with, including yourself - Jason Sudeikis
Flow state helps a ton. Great improvisors are writers. Notice what is useful and what is not. There's no real way to know what's funny until you give it an audience. Jokes are only really funny if they are directly supported by the story. - Seth Rogen
Improv is about • Accept Ideas • Make other people look good • Use positive language
- Galen Emanuele
Whose line is it anyway?
Improv is like walking backwards. We start with one detail, and worldbuild around it. Reverse storytelling. We also build parameters and do whatever inside of them.
For example, (first 30 seconds) what assumptions are we making about this scene? - Keegan-Michael Key
Don't shut ideas down, see if we can make them workable. - Chris Gethard
HOME 1-8-24 the moment of being misgendered by my family
"i wanna go home"
sacramento
home = getting the comfort i need "you feel like home" i said to my exes
i have a first home in my heart and mind
CALM 4-13-24 meditating is nice. calm.
even when i’m joyful, theres a lot of energy being used internally to have these thoughts or feelings at the forefront.
a practice of releasing those energy drains to further maintain stasis and clarity. it’s useful. it’s refreshing. it’s human. it’s me.