Video logging is something that has absolutely consumed my attention this year. Creating videos about daily life never made sense to me until recently. Video creator Casey Neistat launched his daily vlog in March 2015. I had watched a few here and there but it never sank in. After a few months passed I started to see the amount of attention he was getting and it intrigued me. As I started to watch more it began to make sense to me why someone would follow another persons life. I found myself inspired and decided to give it a shot. I uploaded my first vlog entry on January 30, 2016.

I’ve learned a lot over the last 9 months about myself, my surroundings and the internet. As I’m preparing to post my 100th vlog I thought it would be great to capture my thoughts during this time:

Documentation is important - Ultimately you become a journalist for your own life. Technology has progressed quickly and access to create content is reachable for many people. The fact that we can create archives of every day life and piece it together where it tells a story is incredible. Imagine if we had this capability when Christopher Columbus was growing up? We’d understand contextually how he became who he did throughout the course of his life. Keep in mind we’re creating content for generations to come. Video is the most contextual platform - Before I started vlogging, I had built many digital relationships with people on almost every platform except YouTube. After a couple of months of putting out videos I began to engage with other YouTubers and essentially built a relationship with them. I started to feel connected with these people because they were also creating daily content. This really helped me understand why creating videos is important. When you can create meaningful relationships with an audience you begin to develop trust at scale. You need to do it every day - Creating videos is one of the hardest tasks I’ve ever done and thousands of people are doing it every single day. The same way you show up to your weekly job, you need to show up by posting a video. There’s so much posting happening on the internet that the only way to maintain a strong connection with people is to update them every day. Some people are merely searching for a pulse to indicate your alive. Creating every day is very, very hard - Ideating, shooting, editing and managing content is no easy task. It nearly requires all your attention in some way, shape or form throughout the day. You mind is running 24/7 on how to create future content while maintaining the current. People are starting to understand a vlog - This is history repeating itself. Once upon a time not too long ago, people didn't understand why you would follow someone on Facebook or Twitter. It made zero sense to a lot of people. Fast forward to today people can't operate with out them. Vlogging hasn't come anywhere near scale and based on Google data it shows the interest is increasingly growing.

I learned more about myself and things I need to work on personally and professionally. I'm still sorting out the direction I want to take my channel but I'm learning as I go. At this moment in time a daily vlog is the highest quality piece of content I can put out every day.

The story of your life will be one of the most important things to you and your family. Make the best of it and take advantage of this moment in time we have to create. Here's my 100th vlog entry:



