Draft mode — just for you, Kirsten. This essay doesn’t exist yet, and you don’t have to write it — just talk it. Open Granola (or a Claude voice chat, or Voice Memos), read the thought starters below, and answer them out loud like you’re telling a friend over dinner. Twenty minutes of “rambling” is perfect — stories beat summaries, specifics beat theory. Send over the transcript and we’ll shape it into the essay together.
Thought starters
- Tell us about your instinct for going the extra mile — where does it come from, and when did you first notice you had it?
- Walk us through running a shoot or an event end to end: what does “producing it well” actually look like, hour by hour?
- Tell the Abstract stories — a whole season of a Netflix show is a lot of set days. Namedrop freely. The good, the bad, the ugly.
- What’s a moment where the extra mile visibly saved the outcome — something nobody else would have caught?
- And the flip side: a day where everything went wrong. What broke, and how did you land it anyway?
- You’ve occasionally ended up in front of the camera as the model. Tell that story — how does it happen, and what does it say about how you produce? ;)
- What separates a set people dread from a set people love being on?