HeyJaredWill Perez
I’m Will. A 24 y/o creator, filmmaker + photographer Steven Bartletts Lead Filmmaker + Head Of Behind The Diary This is where I think out loud... about all things: • scaling Behind The Diary • the craft of editing and storytelling • building teams
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Everything I’ve learnt from having no fucking clue. (opens the original)
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Someone recently asked me on stage:‘Will… what is it you miss most about working with Steven?”My brain instantly took me to a very specific moment….I’m on the 81st floor of a penthouse apartment. Next to me, is a 2 meter dinosaur egg. Yes. You read that correctly. ’Is that a dionsour e-’’$6.5 million.’’ The man next to me who responded is the same billionare to whom the egg belongs.’Ah, mines slightly different’ I respond with a smir
I’m scared of becoming rich… let me explain (opens the original)
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I’m scared of becoming like the rich people I see.I don’t think money automatically ruins people, I mean the other thing. The slow loss of wonder or the way comfort become expectation. The way people who once would have been amazed by a room start acting nonchalant, cool, expensive and unbothered?What happens to your gratitude when your life starts giving you things your younger self would have prayed for?I first felt this in Miami…It’s 32 degrees and i’m walking into a hotel lobby looks somewha
How I run my life in notion (as a notion hater) (opens the original)
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I have a suspicion that most productivity trackers don’t actually want you to become more productive.They want you to spend more time using them.Because the perfect productivity system isn’t something you spend time on. It’s something that saves you time. And the reality is, with most of these things, you end up spending more time building, tweaking, adding database rows and polishing dashboards than you do actually doing the work.I need to say this upfront: I hated Notion.Not in a casual way. I
The Busiest Person I Know Was Never in a Hurry (opens the original)
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Have you ever caught yourself brushing your teeth five times faster than you need to, for absolutely no reason? Or cooking three times faster for a rush no one told you that you were in? Or walking to the next place at something close to a jog, with nowhere you actually have to be?Sometimes you catch it and think, “wait, why am I rushing?”, but most of the time you don’t. You just carry a low feeling of being late, behind, or slightly overwhelmed, all day, every day.I’ve spent three and a half y
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