It's funny writing Crazy Talk when the newsletter is about crazy london because when I was in crazy london last week I started thinking. "I NEED TO MAKE TIK TOK VIDEOS!' Yep tik tok videos I became obsessed by for around 4-6 hours i think. I was thinking how I must make comic tik tok videos of startup life. e.g A founder on the phone to his designer bro friend asking to increase the gradient of the traction graph and put 'exit' on the team slide. It would be quite funny. Again, then i thought why? Do I really want to keep talking about startups on linkedin?
It's a bit of a theme with my creative thoughts and ideas at the moment, they get defeated by; "what's the point?"
I don't feel that crazy and inventive really, if I really stop I feel a little sad and despondent about startups and business and creating things.
Where I do feel crazy and creative is right here tbh, writing. YES. Y E S. Writing feels good and excited and worthwhile. Like 3,000 people read this! That's what mailchimp tells me, or 3000 people open this or whatever I don't really know but I do think a lot of people do read this. But that's absolutely loads of people. I always think about impact when I think about creating, what can I create that will have impact and I mean impact in a good way, like meaningful stuff, getting people thinking or creating things that the world really needs and people really need. I suppose I am always thinking about health in some way, I want things to be healthy in the world. But with writing you can do a lot, you can reach a lot of people and you can influence how people think or change perspectives or provide information. It's not a business, but it's very powerful. I suppose you might see this newsletter or NEWSPAPER itself as a business that makes absolutely no money and is taking increasingly more of my time. I have wondered if getting other people to write things in the newspaper would be good at some point, that would be cool. LIke a collective of writers, people sharing and writing things from their heart. Sounds lovely.
Not actually that crazy that one, just nice. A nice idea.
head hurts and quite tired from writing now.
James x
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