Don’t know @forkedcreatives but I ripped the start of the ad I got for his course to use as an attention grabber. That original vid had some great advice though. I almost didn’t upload this out of concern of how it’d be perceived, but I didn’t have time to address that in 90 seconds.

Enjoy my heavy breathing. I wanted to hold the shot longer but I was struggling to keep up hahah. It was a fun moment though, one handed gimbal sprint 🤪

DYK: @joerogan has 11 million listeners per episode? Not hating, I think playing Apex with @postmalone and hearing his theory of evolving shark>trees sounds like a good time. 11 million PER though. The information age is crazy. - Yes, this is a real clip covered to the atrocity of AI video and then exported out of premiere with a paper machete template at 10fps. What else does one do during the interim of a few days off work?

Being a dad is grossly underrated.

My ideal retirement plan is to print off nice photo-books and mail them out to friends. Not something advertised or lucrative. In-fact, people shouldn’t even expect it. Here ya go Wylder, have a monthly subscription of post cards from me. I don’t care if you didn’t ask for it, look at this picture I took of your mom and the dog hiking.

The goalposts of my life, how I measure my success, and what makes me happy have shifted radically in the past few years. I don’t imagine every 5-year stint of life will be as eventful as getting married, buying a house, pivoting professionally into corporate America, and having your first child. I’d be okay if the tempo shifted; I’ve come to value a sort of even-keeled, sustainable rhythm in life. I haven’t found this personally, but I definitely value it.😚 The number one question or convo starter I get is, “How’s Wylder? How’s being a dad?” It’s like this: nearly all your decisions, especially the important ones, are motivated to benefit someone other than yourself. This isn’t some moral superiority achieved only in parenthood, as I once thought. I think it results more organically than that. Your kid needs to eat, and maybe also be provided with a little opportunity in a world that feels like it’s going to 🚮🔥. I used to be determined to build something substantial to provide myself and any future children with the security and opportunity I desired. This became a limiting belief, a fixed mindset. Now, slowly, it’s shifted. Who I am is more important to me than what I do. Acceptance creates this sense of humble awareness, which opens you up to recognize opportunity and allows for a kind of agile freedom. Action that comes from how you see yourself, not to try to become something.

“So what did you do this weekend?” _ #swifties #Trump #erastour #aivideo

I’ve been learning increasingly more the importance of the individual moment. I have a tendency to always be pushing forward, invisible finish lines where I’m resolved of the bitter taste in my mouth (rather caused by reality or perception). As a result, I’m rarely content and have a persistent sort of dole anxiety of ‘what ought to be done’. I’m learning how deeply acceptance acts as an antidote to this. Acceptance of the present reality, oneself, the things outside your control. I think this acceptance opens the door for surrender, and then movement forward. However almost accidentally your decision making comes from a place of peace instead of fear.

Six months ago I wrote a journal Substack entry. Embarrassingly poetic, I was trying to process the usual childhood trauma we’re all unaware of. This weekend I put AI generated video over a robotic narration of it, uploaded it anon ofc, and it got a buncha likes in India? Hahaha incredible. T’was validating in a strange way.

Utopia will be created by purging everyone who disagrees with me. If we force equity through the destruction of those higher or different instead of the empowerment of the lesser, our moral superiority will overtake and stamp out any remains of patriarchal oppression throughout society.