I'm not an expert in anything.
I know how to use a camera. I work in education. I've worked in healthcare. I've run a business. I've been a photographer, a web developer, an IT director. I've done a lot of different things. None of them well enough to call myself the expert in any one of them.
What I am is an oddball with a little bit of experience in all of them at once. That gives me a weird perspective — especially in education, where I've spent most of my career. But it doesn't make me the authority on anything.
So what do you talk about when you're not really the expert?
I don't know. Sometimes I have something in my notebook worth expanding on. Sometimes I don't. My notebook went quiet around October. It's late December. My brain hasn't come up with anything particularly new in two or three months, and I've been fine just existing for a while. Maybe that's okay. Maybe that's what rest looks like.
There's one line in my bio I insist on keeping. When people in tech and education want to sound impressive, they call themselves innovators. Disruptors. Whatever the buzzword is. I'm not any of that. I just do the work. That's it. And lately I've been wondering — when you just do the work, and it's not your idea, and you're not in charge of anything, what is there to actually talk about?
I don't have an answer. I recorded this anyway.