Yesterday's email was only half true

I got an interesting response to the “What I Do” email yesterday.

Dude said:

“you don’t really do much of the first list anymore 😕”

I had planned to send a follow-up email addressing this fact. I was already aware of it.

He’s not wrong, and I miss doing these things:

• Tease, provoke, and challenge you.

• Don't show you the respect you think you deserve.

• Disrupt your comfortable path.

• Bring chaos when you want order. 

• Turn things upside down.

• Make light of what's heavy and dark.

I’m pretty sure the main reason you’re seeing less of them is simply because I haven’t been using Instagram.

They’re much harder to pull off in writing. They’re very much “tone dependent.”

For them to be effective — or even funny — they have to be done right.

I’m well practiced doing these things on video.

But with writing, not so much.

I could most certainly practice and get better. Maybe I should.

And then there’s the recent realization about how I was using grandiosity as a tool to make myself feel better.

I think I needed the break to determine who I was versus the characters I’ve been playing.

I don’t think I’ve got it all figured out yet, but it might be time to start experimenting again.

We’ll see.

Thanks for reading.