Welcome to My Brain

This may be cart before the horse, but I could see this blog growing into something bigger. If I’ve learned anything after forty years on this planet, is that my brain never stops. Ideas come and go. It waxes philosophic. It gets me into trouble…

Marry this with my insatiable (compulsive?) lust for reading anything under the sun and you get a cocktail of endless thoughts about endless things. If I were to launch a podcast someday, I would have endless things to talk about.

But let’s make it really interesting: instead of me talking about X or interviewing random guests, I would have the guests interview me. It would be amazing to get to the point where I could have big names on or masters of their field and have them interview me.

Robert Rodriguez was on Joe Rogan a few weeks back and it was one of the best interviews I’d ever seen. RR was amazing, insightful, and really addressed how to do with struggling creatively. He must have done a round robin with podcasters because he showed up a few other places. But I noticed he said the exact same thing over and over — was it because he was asked the same questions? On top of that, I recently cracked open my much-loved copy of Tim Ferriss’s Tools of Titans and there was an interview with Robert from a decade ago…saying the same things.

So flip it on its head. Instead of a fourth, fifth, tenth interview where a celebrity says the same things to the same questions, imagine that celeb coming on the podcast and interviewing me. His or her world-view and experiences and passions would dictate the questions. Very interesting, right?

Hopefully I don’t give the same answers.

August 5, 2025