Week 15

I’m finding it hard to strike a balance with respect to just how personal I get here. Sometimes I feel like I should stop the weeknotes and just write a private diary instead. But this keeps me accountable so I don’t want to stop. I just feel a little uncomfortable thinking of the people who might be reading these, and about how I might cringe at these notes after 5 years (or 6 months). Basically, the idea of being perceived is a little unsettling. I wonder how digital content creators deal with this at their levels of exposure, especially folks like bestdressed, for whom being authentic and vulnerable in her content was one of the factors that really got her to where she is. I hope she’s doing well (probably is, considering she hasn’t uploaded to Youtube in 6 months).

• I woke up and jammed to BTS’ MAP OF THE SOUL:7 every single day this week.
• I finished two seasons of Glow Up and it was fun. I’m appalled at how some really good MUAs were eliminated and MUAs who underperformed consistently kept scraping through. I had a lot of opinions on this, but the strongest is that Ophelia was in a league of her own from the very beginning. An absolute beast of an artist. I’m a big fan.
• I’ve finally started working out again this weekend with a friend. It feels like I say this every other week, which just means I’ve been struggling with consistency. This time I’m just going to focus on getting some movement everyday. I hope doing it with a friend helps with motivation.
• This was my first week at Obvious, lots to do and lots to learn. Something that’s stood out to me in the last one week is just how relaxed everyone seems. I consider that to be something that trickles down from seniors/leadership. Anxiety is contagious and I’ve seen the worst of that, so it’s nice to see this sort of dynamic in an organisation.