How You Process Thoughts

I know that it is important for HSI to reach out to schools.  And I also believe that good communication skills are always worth honing.  Still, when it became my job to introduce HSI to nearly half of California's high schools, I was not stoked. Overwhelmed by the list of over 600 conversations I needed to have, I couldn't picture my job as anything but cold-calling a bunch of strangers.  The first few calls I made were embarrassing. In spite of my performing experience (i.e.

I preface this blog by acknowledging that we've all grown up in different places, attended different schools, and thus had different educational experiences.  In the hope of learning something from my experience, these ramblings revisit my own education:

Above all else, the past two years have shown John and me that the evolution of the Internet is transforming how people communicate.  As connection speeds continue to improve, every day brings more sophisticated ways to interact and share content.  These opportunities to engage others not only presented us with new and enormous possibilities, but required rethinking of old methods. Traditional mass media tactics, like trying to attract the broadest crowd possible, felt flat and out of touch in a world that offers tailor-made content for every niche.

We're waist deep in post production now and things are moving along quite well. Not to say that all is well, but the reality is that I'd be a little concerned if there weren't any issues. Figuring out what does and doesn't work has been a bevy of discoveries, the most interesting being how hard it is to make math not suck. Maybe it's the nature of the material, that it's just easier to come up with entertaining associations for the reading/essay sections.

We finished Principal Photography last Tuesday and learned many things: