Often watching a ‘How to video’ things appear to be easy. Typically, when I watch a ‘How to’ video, in the end, I don’t remember how to do whatever was being shown when I actually need to do it.

But, when I end up in a situation where I have to complete something first hand, I usually don’t forget how to do it again in the future.

Last fall while shooting a video of ice climbing, I ran into one problem after another.

I had bought a new Rode Mic to record audio for the shoot, and I didn’t know how to operate it.

It was cold and made operating the camera gear more challenging.

I had a fancy monopod with a video tripod head, but it was really windy, and I couldn’t hold the monopod still.

The wind was...

It seems like I am always getting asked how to get more Instagram (IG) followers. People reach out and say that they have a goal, they want to have 5000 or 10,000 or 20,000 followers.

They think that people with followers ‘look cool’ or they read somewhere on a travel blog about how people with an audience get free trips or swag, and they want that too.

They reach out to me having seen my various feeds on IG and think that getting to around 80,000 combined followers must have happened overnight...

I always help everyone who asks because people did that for me. I usually spend the next 5 minutes giving them some advice that will help them with growing their audience.

I tell them to find a niche.

I tell them to post consistently.

I...