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I'm up at the makerspace trying to get my life in order before we leave for Designercon 2026 in Las Vegas.
There is so much to do and I am unprepared for most of it.
I have untreated ADHD, with it's accompanying lack of executive function. This makes it very difficult for me to Get Started on things.
But, unlike a lot of my ADHD comrades, I also slip into hyperfocus with almost laughable ease once I've started a task (and can, at times, juggle three or four different things at once, to keep my brain stimulated enough to do them all.)
When I'm working, I get a monumental amount done in a fairly short period of time.
But getting started is hard.
I self medicate for this with a lot of caffeine and by leaving 10+ open tasks in various degrees of unfinished on any given day, and by overloading myself with goals.
Some days, looking at all the open, unfinished things is impossible, so I procrastinate by laying the groundwork for a new thing.
Some days, looking at the list of things I need to start is impossible, so I pick whatever of the open unfinished things catches my attention and I run with it.
This is why it seems like I'm always doing a million disparate things.
I am! Sort of, mostly.
They aren't actually disparate. They all weave together into a shared world view and form a statement of purpose and intent.
I am making media, and that includes toys and games and comics and cartoons and live action television, and music, and I am broadcasting and distributing that media, and that includes bookstores and television networks and radio stations and talking about random bullshit on the internet.
These things are One Thing.
In 2009, on my way home from the first vacation my wife and I took together, we discussed everything Disney does and what it would take to DIY Disney.
What does owning the means of production look like for a media empire?
We talked about this a lot. Every once in a while, I remember that it has shaped what I've done since then.
(an aside: that conversation hasn't shaped anything. that conversation was shaped by everything that came before it. I am just on the same road I've always been on.)
So what does it look like to have Communal Ownership of a media empire like Disney?
1) It looks like the creative commons CC-BY-SA license! Copyright is a broken, regressive system that I believe fundamentally robs people of the terrible joy of a shared folklore, and encapsulates that shared folklore into a commercial product to be sold to them.
Disney uses their own interpretations of copyright law and their enormous (in both senses) legal influence to serve, in this modern world, in a similar role to the Catholic Church in the renaissance.
Think about it!
So we reject them, we reject the church of the mouse, by creating our own works (and sharing them freely with one another.)
@ajroach42 wheatpasting 95 Theses onto the door of Cinderella’s castle
I'm wide awake, it's morning.