HeyJaredPainfully Honest with Jason T. Lewis
Essays, music, and the occasional video — on making things and staying honest about it.
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Hot Streaks are Over-rated (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the last year—or maybe the last three or four years—trying to get my “mojo” back. I haven’t been able to shake this feeling that there was a time when I was more on my game. I was getting things done, in the flow state, or whatever you want to call it, and now I am not and haven’t been for a while.I’ve tried to learn to give myself a little g… Read more
Planning isn’t Doing, Even If it Feels Like It (opens the original)
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On this Monday morning, I’m thinking about getting things done.I’ve been through several months now of planning. Planning a relaunch of my YouTube channel. Planning how I’m going to make money without taking very many sponsorships, if any at all. Planning…everything I could think of to plan.And this morning it came to me: planning was the job I was sitt… Read more
Why AI Makes Experienced Creators Better—and Inexperienced Creators Worse (opens the original)
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The debate is impossible to avoid: Is AI going to destroy human creativity? Is AI going to push human creators out of their livelihoods because of the sheer volume and speed at which AI can crank out writing, videos, music, art, etc.?I get the concern. But I’m going to be honest: when I hear these arguments, I immediately tune out. There’s nothing inter… Read more
Why Do We Still Talk About The Beatles but Not Elvis? (opens the original)
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Yesterday morning, as I do from time to time, I decided to play my 5-year-old some Elvis Presley. I admit, it had been a long time since I intentionally listened to Elvis myself, but I’ve been trying to introduce Zay to different music when I can. Since he’s now able to identify The Beatles by sight and by sound, and Elvis was in my head yesterday morni… Read more
I Fell Out of Love With YouTube. Now I Know Why. (opens the original)
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I started making YouTube videos almost 14 years ago as a way to do something creative that wasn’t as fraught with “Big Expectation” as the other creative things I do. At the time, writing and music were the two things I did that were pretty much self-defining. I was those things. I was obsessed with those things, almost to the point where I didn’t reall… Read more
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