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creating in public - by jaron - the way home

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doesn't the world have enough stuff?

Photograph by Rinko Kawauchi I watched a YouTube video the other day where a guy was commenting on being a vlogger. "It's embarrassing when you start. You're justifying to everyone that you matter more than they do, but you don't have the clout to back it up." That's how I feel about creating in public. To put it bluntly, it feels dumb. It's like I’m shouting, screaming in everyone's face about my importance. That my thoughts are valuable and you just have to read them. Perhaps it's not as cringe-inducing as holding a bulky vlog camera in front of my face day-in and day-out (mad respect to…

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