Something I have been talking and reading about recently is the tiny experiements concept. This is where we are coming up with ideas and doing tiny experiments to test them for a certain number of reps.
I want to go back to live streaming so I tested pre recording a video and streaming it live for 4 weeks. It wasn't having the effect and impact that I wanted to have so back to the drawing board.
The main goals was that I want the "live streaming" in a place where it doesn't disappear in 24 hours like it does on social media platforms i.e Facebook.
This past week I have been testing streaming to substack and youtube as I have a fancy OBS setup...
EXCEPT...
The internet signal (Starlink) and OBS are not cooperating.
So I pivoted and tested restream with OBS and same thing = percieved fail.
Today I tried streaming just OBS straight to youtube - streaming worked - replay seems chopped off at the moment so again another supposed fail. Replay is hidden for now. It says processing so maybe it will work eventually. At the moment the 19 min video replay is 11 mins.
If it comes back I will post the replay as today I was talking about how we can own our systems with Claude from behind the scene in simple people talk so you can actually understand without needing the tech degree.
Now I can quit and say that it is not possible and give up on the tiny experiment or I can keep testing ways and times to see when it does work. Maybe I need to pivot the tool or vehicle.
This is what experimenting out loud is like. You just keep finding ways until you find the unique solution sometimes that is the way that works for you.
No collapse in a pile "I FAILED" - just ok cool that didn't work - next. Troubleshooting in real time.
Maybe I might have to comprimise on using OBS (the tool or vehicle) but we don't comprimise on the goal (livestream to Substack and Youtube).
So if you see me going live on Substack or Youtube - possibly LinkedIn - say hi :D and know you will be seeing me implement the tiny experiment strategy in real time.
After all the only way we achieve goals is by failing faster. Those that are successful never lost sight of the goal - they just pivoted and tested until something worked for them.