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My 2021 Vision Board

2021-01-12 · letter vlog · John · 3:12 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life, Books & writing) · mode: Personal update · tags: community lore, self promotion

John answers comments on his 2021 vision board, jokingly defends its goals (a Cats sequel, finishing his book), declares 2021 the year of a weekly vision board, and walks through this week's: reviewing lemmings, microencapsulation, birds with arms, convincing geese to migrate, signing 10,000 times a week, and reading books, not tweets.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Comments on the vision board; the Cats sequel defended

  • ★ Answering viewers who said not to manifest a Cats sequel, John jokes that the world's mess began with the 2020 Cats movie and only another Cats movie can end it. (joke) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John stands by his goal of finishing his book, which he calls extremely in-depth Yelp reviews, coming out later this year (2021). (playful) — 00:00:00 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (book)

00:00:29 — Standing by the board's goals; fan remixes of the whiteboard; 2021 as the year of a weekly vision board

  • ★★ John wants to get the vaccine into his arm. — 00:00:29 · vaccine
  • ★ John intends to keep AFC Wimbledon in the third tier of English football by sheer force of will. (playful) — 00:00:29 · AFC Wimbledon
  • ★★ John wants to spend less time staring into the abyss. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • ★ Reddit user atlasgrey blanked Johns whiteboard so anyone can use it; Ritz37 used it to put him in a Turtles-all-the-way-down image and SMHMatrix to show his past mustachioed self, which John welcomes. — 00:00:29 · Reddit
  • ★★★ John declares 2021 the year of the vision board: he will update it every week except when away or filming on location, so more vision boards are coming. — 00:00:29

00:01:17 — This week's board: lemmings, microencapsulation, birds with arms, migrating geese

  • ★★ This week's (week of 11 January 2021) board says to review lemmings, as John is a semi-professional reviewer of the Anthropocene interested in lemmings. — 00:01:17 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)
  • ★★ Scratch-and-sniff stickers, time-released medication and triplicate forms all use microencapsulation, which John must understand better for The Anthropocene Reviewed book. — 00:01:46 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (book), The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)
  • ★ Another board item: manifest birds with arms, the one thing birds are missing. (joke) — 00:01:46
  • ★★ Every year more Canada geese become permanent non-migratory residents of Indiana; John wants to convince them to fly south. — 00:01:46 · Indiana

00:02:16 — Signing 10,000 sheets a week for the book; read books, not tweets; sign-off

  • ★★★ To make sure every copy of the first US printing of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is signed, John must sign about 10,000 times a week; the stack he shows is about 600. — 00:02:16 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (book), The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)
  • ★★★ Under 'read books, not tweets', John says reading Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams or even Paul Farmer's upsetting book on Sierra Leone and Ebola leaves him informed and engaged, without Twitter's panicky dopamine rush. — 00:02:45 · Sierra Leone, Twitter

Humor (significant)

  • John blames 2020's mess not on politics or the virus but on starting the year with the Cats movie. — 00:00:00

    “the only way we're getting out of it is with another Cats movie.”

  • Mid-list, after wanting to stare less into the abyss, John loses the thread of his own video. — 00:00:29

    “Sorry what were we talking about? Right, my vision board.”

  • John adds manifesting birds with arms to the board. — 00:01:46

    “It's all that birds are missing.”

  • John lectures Indiana's non-migrating Canada geese that their frozen pond is just a rock. — 00:02:16

    “fly south and give me a few hours without your incessant honking”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: vision board

Also: People: Annie Dillard · Terry Tempest Williams

Projects: The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)

Works: Cats (2019 film) · Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds · The Anthropocene Reviewed (book)

Organizations: AFC Wimbledon · EFL League One · Reddit · Twitter · Yelp

Concepts: bird migration · Canada goose · lemming · microencapsulation · vaccine

Places: Indiana · Sierra Leone

Events: Western African Ebola virus epidemic

Only in the description or credits: Paul Farmer

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