I recorded another live video chat yesterday with Los Angeles actress and filmmaker Lorin Doctor (watch the conversation below). The NYU trained performer has an enviable ability of summarizing the angst of the millennial and sub-millennial creative classes.
Something about her views on the "saturated" media business in L.A. reminds me a bit of my days there and my own concerns with the rigidity and lack of original thought within the upper echelons of media.
For readers and viewers who don't remember, it was a challenging time in my media career - when Bitcoin dropped as low as the $200s, TV shows and podcasts who were previously friends became very much not friends - emails went unanswered, bookers stopped booking yours truly for any segments whatsoever, etc. Looking back at it now from my perch, it was a horrific chapter or two in my 20s; my professional social circle in L.A. suffered from a kind of loyalty anemia, which I realized only afterward.
Today, Bitcoin is in the $660s, and secondplace crypto Ethereum - which I'm very passionate about - is just shy of a billion dollar market capitalization, having only launched formally a year ago. Cryptocurrency is very much back in vogue on the shows, and it amazes me that merely a couple years ago I was so shunned from the L.A. media circuit for a technology that has since done so phenomenally well... and in light of the mainstream financial circus, it's a technology that has arguably won more and more of the public's respect over the last couple years.
Aside from millennial issues, Lorin and I also spoke last night about the rising unrest in the U.S. and Europe. As she put it in one of her recent videos, the country is "in shambles" at the moment, yet the creative must continue to go to work, produce content, research, entertain the rest of us.
Watch my full conversation with Lorin here: