I want to share a mini breakthru I had yesterday at c4c when Nate told me “we just want to see how you think”
we’d just finished a session on APIs and how to connect to stuff on the internet and i could tell that it hadn’t landed as well as I’d wanted, likely because there was a whole code for creatives API demo I chose to skip in the middle? or maybe it did land and i just have no idea?
but at the end, with a few min left, I asked everyone what they were thinking and there were a few “i’m not sure how to really use this stuff” comments in the chat.
I’m proud of myself honestly at how i handled it, with minimal defensiveness, mostly with curiousity. and i asked some questions and eventually Nate said something like “i think mostly what we want to see is just all of your workflows, how you set all this up, how you do this day to day. forget about teaching it, just show it.”
and maybe he wasn’t exactly saying that in response to the API stuff, like “this sucks, do that instead” but it does feel somewhat true? i’m not articulating very well here, but the point is it feels good to know that. since he said that i’ve felt a lot more inspired. its been a few hours. but i feel light. and just excited about stuff again. maybe its just finally my brain is coming back to me after a shit show of a last week. man that was so hard. idk.
i’m just happy and that is nice.