On Writing & Mental Health

Tris and Robin introduce themselves and share tips for writing podcasts, blogs, videos and how to survive inside a creative brain. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Introductions00:01:27 Why are we here & defining “decapsulate”00:05:04 Podcasts are great!00:11:15 From Podcasting to blogging00:16:20 Wait, what is this podcast all about?00:24:40 Blogging II: Electric boogaloo00:38:40 Writing distractions00:53:40 Bottom-up thinking01:08:00 Decapsulate upload schedule discussion01:13:30 Conclusion 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External https://www.relay.fm/cortexhttps://www.youtube.com/@CGPGreyhttps://www.nightvalepresents.com/startwiththishttps://pluralistic.net/ 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript [00:00:00] Teaser 1[00:00:00] Introductions Tris: I guess I’ll go first. Hi folks, my name is Tris. I’m a podcaster and video producer, I’m a musician. In fact, I started out doing anything creative or in public by being a musician. My first career was as a web developer, and I did production on the side for 15 years, but in 2022 I accidentally became entirely self employed thanks to the surprising success of my YouTube channel, No Boilerplate. I am here with my friend Robin. Hi Robin. Robin: Hi Tris: Tell the listeners about yourself. Robin: I’m Tris’s friend I’m nowhere near as impressive in my output as Tris. I am a father. I’ve always wanted to be a father and I’m very proud of, being a father to my children. I’m a big fan of openness and transparency and open source. I’ve been a web developer and team leader for about 18 years. I worked for Canonical for 10 years, I worked with what is now our mutual friend, and that’s how I got introduced to Tris, and then Tris got me a job at Canonical, we worked together there for a bit, and you know, we’ve known each other ever since, I have a lot of thoughts about how to solve technical problems, as well as, How to solve other problems, and I’m a little bit obsessed with politics. [00:01:10] Why are we here & defining decapsulate Tris: we are here because I love talking about tech. I especially love talking about tech with you, and there are some parts of my, video audio creation writer world that I’d love for other people to get a little insight into. And I found that speaking with. You is a great foil occasionally, although that is a backhanded compliment. But certainly you’re very good at asking difficult questions that I appreciate you asking. “ Appreciate“ in, like, scare quotes. Robin: I feel like I do sort of challenge you in a way that I, I’m surprised you’re okay with. I often feel a bit bad about it afterwards. Tris: You’re right. That’s probably the perfect interviewer, or, host attitude. Robin: I feel like your interpretation of decapsulate was different than mine. When you first said it, I thought it sounded like a great name. And, Tris: Oh no. Robin: no, no, no. I think it’s good. I think this was interesting. It was interesting that you related it more to software than I did, Tris: Yes, because encapsulation means bringing everything inside an interface of some sort and bringing along the things you need inside that to work, maybe through internal data and internal functions or something like that. How did you interpret it? Robin: Well, I think, I suppose I think that decapsulate is maybe a synonym for unpack Tris: I really like that word unpack. Robin: I do think that it was, it’d be very interesting to talk about why we identify with unpacking things. Because I think we do, I think lately I’ve started to feel more like I’ve noticed more that people around me are not as interested in getting to the details, talking about the details of stuff as I am. I have to be aware of that because particularly in work, there’s a lot of things where I’m like, if we were to think seriously about this problem, then we would define the basis of what we’re trying to achieve. And then we would work out what flows from there. I always want to delve into the fine details of designing the solution clearly in a way that other people, are often quite frustrated by. The thing that people don’t seem that interested in is more like the focus. I tend to want to look at things from many angles. I think that you aren’t, you haven’t really discovered the truth until you’ve looked at it from many angles. And I think also, discovering the truth is really important. A lot of people aren’t necessarily on the same page as me in all those ways. They aren’t necessarily interested in the truth. seeing things from a few angles and making sure they’ve found the truth at the heart of it. Do you know what I mean? Tris: Yes, it...