This seems to be my problem (well, that and the direct opposite), but with both The Saturday Show, GigShanghai, The Shanghai Show and Shanghai Diaries, I always leave as soon as it starts working. Weird right? I walked from the ChinesePod spin-off show just as we topped out at half-a-million listeners a month. The B.B.C. emailed me about GigSH 3 weeks after I ended it. The Shanghai Show made all the papers here after I began the Diaires and even those are still getting press despite it being 3 months defunct.
I need, ironically, a producer or someone who can take these things and run with them after I get bored…
Speaking of which, a new show will be coming out in a week or so – make that a little new show between the previous one (SH Diaries) and the newest one coming online around January.
Proactive? Yes I am. Maintaining them is where I fail…some creepy similarities to my personal life.
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I turn on the TV tonight and Anthony Bourdain is in… LAOS! Looked really interesting but hard to tell when it’s made for TV journalism. Hope you were able to have a better time in the northern part of the country. Have you picked out your next base of operations yet?
Aric, the one thing we’ve all figured out is that no matter what you decide to do, you’ll have a built in initial audience to get the show moving. I guess you have a “dim sum” life, bits of this and that rather than one big dish. As long as the food is tasty and you cook up a good show, your restaurant will always be packed!!
The weird thing is, every time I catch up with one of your new projects, you’re off. It’s most unsettling. But, indeed, your shows/blogs/columns have been happily compelling and all the very best for your new idea.
Aric,
It is because of people like you that I strive to go on living knowing that someone somewhere is doing the things that I always dreamed of doing and that they are having a good time doing it. You keep me young
I feel as though it is my job to give you the half-full perspective to make you feel warm and fuzzy about yourself (like teak trees if you will) ’cause that’s what friends do.
SO – it’s not strange that you create something, make it ossom, and then want to pass the reigns to someone else. You just have an entrepreneural spirit. You create things…and when they work…your job is done. You must go create something else and make that work. Perhaps it can be extended to your personal life as well. You are a relationship entrepreneur? Hands?