Practicing in Public

Hello. Welcome to Daily's for Friday, October 20. It's, 12 degrees. Feels like 11 degrees with the old wind chill thingy. This episode of Daily ish brought to you by Patreon supporters possibly like you.

Patreon.com/ichris, where can visit to check out how you can support my podcasting efforts a little more directly. I need to change up that wording because I'm sure you all, whoever's listened to the 200 or whatever episodes previously, 219 or whatever that I've actually said that on, are sick of hearing me say, check out my podcasting efforts a little more directly. But this is not a weather podcast, so this is not a Patreon podcast. There. That's something different.

I want to I'm recording these are the little different method to record this episode, so hopefully everything works. But I wanted to, play a little clip from another podcast that I'm editing that it'll it's CodePen Radio. It's, from the site CodePen. Codepen.com now, think they have. But, where you can use the site for learning how to code, practice code, mess around with coding, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, other words that I don't even understand, but I still edit the podcast.

But, anyways, one of their hosts, co hosts, and also employees, I guess, Rachel Smith was talking about they're talking about just putting stuff out there, practicing, and, using that as an experience to get better rather than waiting until you've arrived and you're perfect and nothing there's no mistakes in either like a blog post or in their case, putting out a a sample of some code that you have been working on or trying a problem you've been trying to solve. So here's that clip.

You know, the point of blogging isn't to write a post and then have everyone go, oh my god, you're so right and you're, like, you're clearly the best developer ever. Like, it's it's that's you don't grow from that at all. So if anything, people like contributing and helping you out in areas that you may have missed or not thought about, like, that's that's awesome. That's probably what you want from the experience.

Which was a great sort of comment to hear, in light of the episode I put out yesterday, and and I think the same applies with podcasting. If you're like me and you feel like you have to have it perfect before you put that thing out there, the episode or the podcast, the show, whatever level of podcasting you're at, then that's also a false idea. And and, we can learn from each other. Hopefully, you know, constructive criticism and, hey, your levels were really loud, but I really love what you had to say kind of stuff, or you said some weird stuff, but the sound was really good, Or or, I don't know, the the soundboard stuff you had going on was awesome and, I really laughed at that or something. What I tend to favor is sandalwood.

So that kind of stuff where where you can have constructive criticism, but that's how you can kind of grow a lot. Or, like, people letting you know that the audio sounds really good when I listen to my car, but when I listen to your voice on my iPhone speakers, it sounds all garbled. I don't know what's going on, but love the show. Just letting you know. That kind of stuff for a podcast is just knowing that people are out there, I guess.

First of all, the I've often said, like, in guitar playing, the worst thing is when you it's it's bad enough when you make a mistake on stage. Let's say you're playing somewhere, but it's even worse when you make a mistake, a fairly obvious mistake, not just like a mistake that guitar nerds notice, but, a mistake that, you know, a wrong chord, a note in the wrong place, your sound is not when it's supposed to be or it's way too loud, and nobody comments afterwards, which, you know, it makes you feel like, was anybody actually even paying attention to what I was doing? Where was the point of of that? Why did I rehearse? Why do we go through other whatever practices and stuff and have the sound set up the way it was if nobody's actually hearing what I'm doing or paying attention to what I'm doing.

But I digress. That's my guitar rant. What I would really like to encourage folks, if you're thinking about podcasting or if you're thinking about blogging, about setting up a website, that's what I love about technology and the Internet is how easy it makes it for all of us to experiment with this creative outlets and not have to have it perfect. You don't have to go through all the expense of building a thing, a physical thing to know that you're not a carpenter or a, shoe repair person or there's not a lot of wasted materials. Your time obviously, I guess, could be wasted in a sense, but hopefully you'd learn from the experience of recording a podcast or writing a blog post or something even I mean, setting up a Twitter account and setting out a tweet or maybe recording something on an Instagram story or whatever and just sort of throwing it out into the world and see what happens.

If that's your slant or your banter, you're interested in that obviously, not just for the sake of doing it, but that you'd have the the freedom or the courage or the, yeah, that this would maybe give you a bit of encouragement to push past that voice telling you, who cares? It's nobody cares or it's stupid or I don't know what I'm gonna say or what I say will sound dumb or anything like that, like I talked about in the last episode about that dumb monkey and, getting it off your back. And some ways, for me anyways, maybe this isn't true for you, a lot of the times for me it's just a matter of pushing past that to get that even if it's a piece of garbage episode, podcast, or blog post out there or tweet even helps just like show that monkey that you are able to still do that thing in spite of that, the all that the monkey is trying to do to keep you down. So It's a jive moment. Thanks, The Edge.

Alright. On that note, before I start devolving, de or whatever ing into a soundboard podcast, I hope you have a good weekend. I'm gonna end it here. Tweet at me on at I Chris on Twitter. And like I said at the beginning, patreon.com/ichris.

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