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instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists — first and primarily — for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks — in order to validate its existence.

build a world that the RIGHT people — your kindred people — will discover, will gravitate towards, and fall in love... See more

Motivation is the fun-but-flaky friend who overpromises and underdelivers. Motivation is unreliable, and it is not going to get most of us through a book or any other long-range project. Octavia Butler: “Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment.”

In her poem “NewSpeakers,” Gloria Anzaldua proclaims We don’t want to be / Stars but parts / of constellations . Living now in a time of heightened disparity and manifold global atrocities being committed across political factions, Gloria’s proclamation resists the oppressive systems that thrive on individualism, isolation, division, and scarcity. ... See more

I understand that as filmmakers we are also producers and laborers (per Benjamin’s Author as Producer ), and as such, I aim to weaponize my filmmaking skillsets against capitalism. As Benjamin noted: “[the] apparatus is better, the more consumers it is able to turn into producers-that is, readers or spectators into collaborators.”