Invitation to a voice note interview | MS

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Thanks for your email. You asked me what’s my “latest magnolia”. I think that was more or less what you said. I haven’t checked, but I like the way you asked it. And it sounded to me like you were asking what’s my current creative enthusiasm. And it’s actually something else that I referred to in that voice note that I sent you.

Excuse the sound of traffic. I’m on a quiet road, but I’m recording this out and about.

The thing that’s interesting to me at the moment is little chats on voice notes. And it’s something that was partly consolidated as an interest by what you said about the halting, rambling quality of voice notes, the being real and the not being AI generated.

And so I’m experimenting. I’m at the very, very early stages of an experiment doing a tiny little micro interview with people by sending a voice note to them and asking them to send a voice note back if they want to.

And the idea is that each message should only be one minute and I’ve already overshot. Hang on. I’ll do another one.

Anyway, the point is I would love to interview you by voice note if you’re interested. Three questions. And I really won’t mind at all if you don’t want to do it or you’re too busy or whatever. No hard feelings.

But if you felt like doing it, I have three questions for you and your challenge is to try to answer them in about one minute in a voice note that’s quite spontaneous and not practised and polished.

And the first question is, how did you end up doing what you do?

And the second question is, oh dear, it’s windy suddenly. I hope you can hear me. The second question is, what’s something that’s really making you excited at the moment? Could be in work or could be in anything.

And I’m just making this up now because I haven’t asked anyone else this question. But I think the next question would be, if I checked in with you on another voice message interview in three months, what would you hope might have changed?

Anyway, that’s three messages which represent my latest magnolia. And like I said, no problem at all if you don’t feel like doing this. It’s been nice to send you these messages in the first place.

jp at this domain name.