Welcome to a special Thursday edition of The Midlife Remix! Why publish on Thursday? Because I’ve been sick AGAIN. The parade of illness from little Kirby’s preschool continues into the spring. Anyway, onward!

Cohort enrollment continues

Case you haven’t heard, I launched pre-orders for my very first cohort class! It’s called Everything I Know About Making Videos and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

You can save $550 dollars when you pre-order. There are six pre-order slots remaining. Get ’em while you can!

This is a live, interactive six-week event that I might never do again. Read more about it here.

If you have any questions about the course, just reply to this email. 

Meet Your Fellow Subscribers

There are many, many great things about running a good ol’ fashioned email newsletter, but one of the best is that anybody can reply. I’ve heard from many hundreds of you over the years. I read every one of these emails and whenever I can, I reply back.

A drawback of the email newsletter is that you only from me, not each other. So I’d like to introduce you to some of the other subscribers to this newsletter. These are some of the awesome entrepreneurs, freelancers, educators, and makers who I’ve had the honor of having in my audience for years.

• Paul Anderson is an educational consultant who has a huge YouTube channel. Paul recently launched a product that was inspired… by me! See below for photographic evidence. Check out Paul’s new systems thinking toy, Switch Its! 

• Jeffrey Vinokur created and hosts Generation Genius, which streams high-quality science and math video lessons for kids K–8. Amazing product, amazing company, and Jeff accomplished this while being annoyingly young.

• Jay Acunzno is a maven of sane marketing in the modern mediascape. He and I chat every few months. I always leave our conversations inspired. Jay has a brand new podcast series called How Stories Happen!

• Adam Westbrook produces videos for The New York Times, writes a newsletter about creativity, productivity & storytelling, and even writes and draws a comic book zine, the excellent Bite Guard Fever Dreams.

• Brendon Miller is a filmmaker who writes the the best newsletter there is about explainer videos and hosts the YouTube channel, The ideas that explain the news.

• Smriti Mehta co-hosts the science podcast Nullius in Verba.

• Jordan Terry redesigned and overhauled his dad’s all-in-one portable gym idea, BodyGym. Really impressed by the quality of the marketing and the product.

• Hans Sharler has a blog called About Things. He posts about whatever he’s into! Of late, that’s lots of AI and Atomic Habits. He also makes a mean brisket and will show you how.

• Michael Taylor runs the marketing agency Saxifrage and he created a best-selling ChatGPT prompt engineering course!

• David Ryan sails catamarans that he built himself! If you ever find yourself in Montauk, New York, check out Montauk Catamaran.

• Keith Obsourne is a super-talented 3D animator.

• Ronnie Higgins has a B2B Marketing newsletter and podcast called Marketing Under the Influence.

• My long-time buddy and This is Not a Conspiracy Theory contributor Louis Wesolowsky is an amazing illustrator and animator.

• Antonio Garcia is a designer, maker, and much more, and wrote this brand new piece, Cultivating Creativity in the Shadow of Generative AI.

• Joshua Nelson is the co-founder of the marketing analytics company, MashMetrics.

• Peter Nillson is an educator who has a newsletter, Educator’s Notebook, where he shares the latest education-related news. Peter’s also written a couple education-themed musicals!

These are just the people I’ve been in contact with in the last little while! I am missing many of you in this list.

See you all again on Monday! Assuming I’m not stricken by preschool plague...

Love,
k

P.S. Got a business, a channel, a passion project? Tell me about it!

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