Conversations with My Night Brain

Welcome to five Quick Things
for October 1st, 2025.

Number one, a quick trip to
meet the transistor team.

What started as a, Hey, you're
gonna be a seven hours away.

What if I drove over and
crashed your team meeting?

Turned into a bit of a whirlwind trip
to Canmore, Alberta and back again.

I got to meet Justin Jackson, co-founder
of Transistor fm, and the team he and

John Buddha have put together to build
a great podcast hosting platform.

I've known Justin for at least 12 years,
but never met each other in person.

They were super inviting and welcoming.

Even let me crash in one of the
spare rooms at the place they

rented, fed me, clothed me, even
with some sweet transistor merch.

I wanna encourage you to take the
trip, see the concert, go to the

meetup, visit the client, whatever the
scenario of internet connectivity you

have, where you could bridge the real
world, divide obviously while being

safe and not doing something stupid.

Of course, as Justin kept saying,
all week, I could die tomorrow.

Number two, I feel anxious about
what I'm supposed to be doing.

I know part of it is just burnout of being
on the client work treadmill for years.

Part of it is that half my
clients are a bit random.

I work best with regular
schedules and routine.

Another part is doing it solo the
whole time, and probably a third or

fourth part wherever we're at is the
looming anxiety over AI and tech that

will just replace me with a button.

And what that means for me financially
sometimes feel like how I remember feeling

when I was working for someone else way
back before I started my business, I

knew I needed to start my own business.

Except now I work for myself, and
what would I jump to if I didn't?

It's kind of weird.

I also have a need or desire to create
my own stuff, like this little experiment

and have that be enough, not have
to rely on others to create things

that I help push out into the world.

So do I want a boss to tell
me what to do, or do I want to

be even more of my own boss?

Woo, someone tell me what to do.

Number three, our feeds are not the same.

I know we all kind of know
this, but it's worth repeating.

We are not all getting the same
information fed to us by the

algorithms we watch and read.

I can almost guarantee that if you pick
the person you know in real life that

you disagree with the most about what
they post online and swap feeds on the

apps, you'd have a completely different
version of the world presented to you.

That's kind of bonkers on a societal
level, and I don't think we wrestle

with the impact of that enough.

And now with AI at the forefront of every
Google search, many basic attempts to

do your own research will only reinforce
whatever view you're trying to prove.

Double woof.

Number four.

Okay.

Is five things, too many more meta
podcasting thoughts, but lately it's

felt like I started a new episode idea
and it takes me two to three, almost

four weeks in this case to fill it up.

I wonder if I should shorten it
to three quick things, or maybe if

I stopped dumping ideas on social
media farts and save them for

this instead, I'd do better at it.

Or I could try and do a self-imposed,
every episode goes out on a

Tuesday or a Thursday to require
me to just put out something.

It's all self-imposed of course.

I can change my own rules.

Number five, Prairie thoughts leaking out.

Some of you live in giant cities.

Do you know that cities with millions
of people all trying to get to work, buy

groceries, figure out soccer practice
times, roads that are maintained,

water that's decontaminated and
clean before it gets to your home.

Electricity that just turns on.

It's kind of wild and sometimes
my brain feels overwhelmed at the

thought of how big the world is.

Five quick things is a mini episode
of Conversations with My Night Brain

that I'm doing so I can just put
stuff out into the world without

having it all figured out quite yet.

If you'd like to be on an episode of
Conversations with My Night Brain as

my guest, please get in touch with me.

I'd love to chat with you.

Episode three or four of this podcast,
I think it is, has an example of

how an episode might sound with,
uh, AI guest, and that was five

quick Things for October 1st, 2025.

Thank you for listening.