Believe it or not.

I've started a YouTube channel.

This has been in the back of my mind for a while, but I finally committed to it. I've always had a slightly bipolar relation to social media. While I appreciate how it keeps me connected with my peers, I have grown tired of the attention-grabbing direction that the social media platforms have taken. It is rarely social, mostly distracting and rarely rewarding.

YouTube is a different animal, at least to some extent. It is by far the media that I use and consume the most. It can be educational, entertaining, and rewarding to spend time on. I want to spend my time on reflecting, thinking, and connecting and it seems that Youtube is the platform where the hope to create meaningful connection and building a community is still alive.

The videos are the unfiltered, raw version of my thoughts and considerations. I consider myself a writer, but I am surely a talker, more than anything. I can ramble on for hours on topics that interests me and I use these videos as an idea generation process for my writing. They touch on life in cooking and beyond and I ask myself uncomfortable questions about creativity, the cost of building something meaningful, and what happens when success doesn't feel like you thought it would.

The vlog format lets me think out loud in a different way. Less polished, more raw. The kind of conversations I've been having with myself while writing on my book.

The first few videos are up, mostly considerations about why I sold the restaurants, and the underlying reasons that motivated me.

If you've gotten something from these newsletters, I'd love your support on this new project. You can help me by watching them, they are around 8-10 min, so make sure you have time for it - if not the algorithm will kill them. 😄

A subscribe, a comment, even just watching helps more than you'd think—it tells YouTube this matters to people beyond just my existing audience.

[Check out the channel here ]

I'm figuring this out as I go, which feels right for where I am. Thanks for being part of this and please let me know if you have any feedback or topics/questions you would like me to touch on.

Thank you!

Christian