Ideas

EarHustle --

A social network like Instagram but with music.  You follow people and you get to listen to their stream.  After five plays a song give you an option to buy.

HealthBook --

FB but for Health.  You get badges for things you do.  Socially network the FitBit or other health awareness data.  Connect across social networks to confirm running goals and fitness.  Award badges and confirm.

-- A social network without the network.  We take data and propagate it across social networks (Instagram, FB, anything) and let people know that you actually really do work out as opposed to talking about it.

Idea: Stuff

StuffStream -- clothing or items mixed with a social media platform and a monthly charge where the person you follow gets a commission.

Ideas

Instacut -- haircuts to your house on demand

Big Hit

So I took a big emotional hit this week.  I didn't get passed at the Comic Strip.

It really hurt.  It really fucking hurt.  And people in comedy hate me.  And I don't really care for them either mostly to be honest.

I'm very suceptible to energy.  Very. I'm an empath.  I feel everything in the extreme whether they be feeling of affection or feelings of hate.  Comics by and large hate me.  I don't really love them either.  But the audience members I do care for. Love?  Maybe that's a strong word but when I'm on that stage I care for them.

And to be honest I don't want to let the comedy scene beat me.  I feel like I've been given a raw deal.  And I don't like it.  And I don't want to accept this defeat.  So this is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to build thetoc.com.

Thetoc.com or the table of contents will allow you to see every article on every site that you 'follow'.

It will then allow for you to comment on the article on a separate comments section.
It will also allow for you to save articles.
It will allow you to buy articles for which you do not have a subscription so if an article is behind a pay wall you could see it (changepurse -- a micro transaction product).
It will allow you to follow up to 25 publications per month but it will allow students (those with a .edu email address to follow up to 100 publications per month as well as HS students that authenticate using FB)
Otherwise it will cost people 1.00 per month for 100 publications.
It will also allow you to delete articles
It will also allow you to follow specific writers (not just publications) and allow them to publish an article exclusively on thetoc.com if they see fit and their publication does not want it

Publications:

1. the NY Times
2. The WSJ
3. The Daily News
4. The New York Post
5. The Washington Post
6. Breitbart
7. The Root
8. The Daily Caller
9. The Grio
10. The Hill
11. National Geographic
12. CNN
13. ESPN
14. Sports Illustrated
15. Fox News
16. Bloomberg
17. Bloomberg Business
18. Complex
19. The Fader
20. The Onion
21. The Baltimore Sun
22. The Boston Papers (2)
23. The New Hampshire Papers
24.  The Philly Paper
25.  The Colombus, Ohio Paper
26. The Cleveland Paper
27. The St. Louis Paper

Revenue Goals:

Advertising
changepurse

Brand Extension Goals:

Podcast

A Weekly Online News Show:
-- Me
-- Jocelyn Chia
-- Chris Hamilton
-- Chris Bazemore
-- Freddie G
-- Kevin Hurley
-- Cool Latina -- Last Name: Ouch
-- Phil Valentine

Push Everycomedyshow.com

Article Of the Week and an Interview with a Reporter For Article of the Week

Launch Resolved

Bottom Line:

This should give me a social media following and give me the ability to throw a monthly show here in NYC and a tour eventually.

It should also give me profile as a technologist.

And it should give me the ability to sell merch on the site through advertising.  Building an on demand merch platform.

A Bit Depressed and Respect

These days I am a bit depressed.

I am not respected in the comedy scene.  That's not entirely true.  But not by people who haven't seen me on stage (which since I'm not getting tons of stage time is alot).  But people who've seen me know that I'm good.  They actually know that I'm really good.

I'm really concerned about getting respect from people who don't even bother to see me before they disrespect which is crazy.  

But I can still feel the disrespect.  

I think the worst thing about how I feel right now is that I expected to get into New York Comedy Club.  I really expected it.  I worked really hard.  I did everything I was supposed to.  I generally was a good guy.  I really was.  But there is some ugly rumor out there about me that is kind of crushing my dreams and nobody will let me know what it is.  And I know it's hurting me.  And I know it stole NYCC's late nights from me.  And it hurts.  Because it shouldn't have.

I guess this is the most hurtful thing.  Because I thought I earned it.

But I don't think that's a great reason to be sad.  

Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy both came through the Comic Strip.  I think the best thing I can do is work really hard and get passed there.  It's a good club and I have friends there.  And it's not as clique-y.  And I'm friends with people there.  And it's got a great pedigree.  And it's in my neighborhood.  Which is pretty great.  And they don't have Roast Battles.  

I think I can do well there.

So I'll focus on that.  

Also there is some good news!  I'm (we're) almost done with our TV pilot. PB&J Comedy.  So that's huge. It makes me laugh alot so that's good.  (:D !!!!)  I think it's really great!   

What else?  I'm working on this ECS website and I think it's finally really coming together.  I really think it is.  That just might get me into the Lantern for a couple of nights a week.  Which would be good.  I'd be happy with 2-3 nights a week.  That'd be dope.

Maybe one night a week on Allan's show.  That'd be cool too.  But we'll see.

So to summarize:

TV Pilot
Everycomedyshow.com (coming soon)
The Comic Strip (hopefully)

All by the end of January/February.  Not too shabby.  Not at all.  Just keep working.

I want that new time about my childhood soon.  I have to start working on it.  After this site is up.

Comedy and Continuous Learning

Not a very inspiring title right now.  But here's where we are.

As far as comedy goes I have to come up with some new jokes:

Set jokes:

Set up - 40 sec.  - 3 too long
Starter - 3 Joke
Disposable Income - 1 Joke
Detroit/Germany ...
  -- Detroit Joke -- 1 Joke/ Harmonica Meth Joke - 2 (Test this tonight.  Try to combine it)
  -- Germany Joke - 3
Sanford and Son - 2 Joke
L. Ron Hubbard - 3 Joke (We'll see - Only a One check joke)

In order to do this correctly I'll have to kick up the Disposable Income Joke and the Detroit Joke.  That'll get this set to completion.

Continuous Learning:

This is my real dilemma.

I have this thing I do where I take a long time to do things.  For instance, right now I have enough to actually work through some Equilend specific projects but I want to finish this Intro to ML and complete the task.  I also want to complete the Coursera course that allows me to learn about the math behind ML.   So this is my ideal path of learning.

• Finish Intro to ML
• Coursera: Math behind ML
• FB - PyTorch
• Deep Learning (Udacity)

However, to do this it would be the middle of next year (June) before I actually get to do something and create some work product.

Reasonably I could do this:

• Finish Intro to ML
• Put together Trade Probability Project ($$$)
• Put together Rejected Trades Project ($$$)
• Put together Tiered Trade Project ($$$)
• Coursera: Math behind ML 
• Deep Learning (Udacity) 

Looking at it in this way this seems to be the more sensible path and so this is what I'll do.

Ok.  Sounds good.  

So today's play is:

1. Rewrite Jokes
2. Work through Text Learning 

Next Moves

This post is exploratory.  Originally I named it comedy and technology.  But even I am not sure where it is going right now.

Here's my current situation.  

I now have 13 minutes of tight comedy.  I have two more minutes I think are tight and two minutes I have to develop.  That basically gives me 17 minutes of jokes.  Maybe 18.  That's a lot.  

To be honest I didn't realize I had that kind of time until the other day when I ran some old jokes I wrote and they worked like hell.  :D  Now I'm in a place where I've progressed faster than I expected.

So what do I do next?

First, I think it's time to re-audition at Broadway Comedy Club.  Doing that will give me two things:  

1.  Regular spots -- I need some regular spots where I can perfect this material in front of real audiences from all across America.

2.  Exposure -- It's time to get out there a bit and just put myself out there and let people see my work.

3.  Respect -- I'm always very big on this and this should result in more shows.

Second, mics.  Keep doing mics.  

Right now it is late March.  Let's just say April.  By the end of April I should have a solid 17-20 minutes of jokes.

That gives me 7 more months to develop new material.    If I develop a tight five minutes every 3 months (reasonable)