{"id":4123,"date":"2018-08-02T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottdeluzio.com\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:20:26","slug":"lessons-i-learned-as-a-soldier-my-new-video-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottdeluzio.com\/lessons-i-learned-as-a-soldier-my-new-video-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons I Learned As A Soldier: My New Video Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"000 - Army Lessons Introduction\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8n2nrCnK6q4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, I had such a good time this past weekend at WordCamp Denver talking about some of the lessons I learned as a soldier that I&#8217;m starting a new video series on the topic. This will be a weekly video series and will include things I&#8217;ve been able to apply to my business, mental and physical health topics, and a whole lot more. Hopefully people check it out and find it useful. If not, oh well I&#8217;m going to have fun doing it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>As a little background, I served in the Connecticut Army National Guard for about 6 years as an infantry soldier. I did a tour to Afghanistan, and picked up a lot of lessons along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The first one is up above. It came out on a Thursday, so I&#8217;ll probably stick to publishing on Thursdays unless there is a compelling reason to switch.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re watching that video, I recorded it with the intention of it being a &#8220;hello world&#8221; sort of video. I&#8217;m also using it as a dry run to work out some kinks on the recording process. It&#8217;s not perfect, the next one probably won&#8217;t be either, but hopefully it&#8217;ll go a little smoother.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping this generates genuine conversation. In order to have a conversation though, we need to get in touch with each other.<\/p>\n<p>There is an email signup form at the bottom of this post. Subscribers will get an email any time a new video is posted. You can reply directly to me, comment on the video on YouTube or the blog post I write for it on this site. If email isn&#8217;t your thing, you can subscribe to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL_Rn7pcg2fswX7bPQaqZKjFmdG4fGh3eY\">channel on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to try to make these videos as accessible as possible. That means each video will have captions and a transcript available. This should help anyone with visual or hearing impairments. If there is something else I can do to make these videos even <em>more<\/em> accessible, please let me know in the comments or <a href=\"https:\/\/scottdeluzio.com\/contact\/\">send me an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><button data-expandable=\"transcript\">Video Transcript<\/button><\/h3>\n<div id=\"transcript\">Hey everyone, my name is Scott DeLuzio. Some of you might know me, others might not. That&#8217;s okay; I&#8217;m hoping to change all that with this video.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to do is introduce a series of videos that I&#8217;m going to be doing on lessons that I&#8217;ve learned while I was in the army.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done a few talks like this at various conferences in the past.<\/p>\n<p>This past February at LoopConf I did a talk on mental health issues that I learned from my military experience.<\/p>\n<p>At PressNomics last year I did a short lightning talk, touched a little bit on my military experience.<\/p>\n<p>And most recently, at WordCamp Denver, just last week, I did a talk on business lessons that I learned while I was in the army.<\/p>\n<p>And I really enjoyed preparing for these talks, giving the talks, and I especially enjoyed the conversations that I had with people afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>I got to speak with lots of people that I might not have otherwise gotten to speak to if I hadn&#8217;t given these talks.<\/p>\n<p>The problem that I&#8217;ve had with these talks, though, is that there&#8217;s just not enough time to cram in everything that I want to talk about into these short, sometimes 10, 15, 20 minute, some odd talks, where I have lots of information that I want to say.<\/p>\n<p>I start preparing the slides for these presentations and I end up with way more topics than I could possibly fit into the time period that I have allotted to me. And so I end up cutting out a ton of it.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, at WordCamp Denver, I limited myself to just two topics in the 20 some odd minutes that I had to talk.<\/p>\n<p>And so it just wasn&#8217;t a ton of time, to fit everything in.<\/p>\n<p>And I wanted to do these talks more frequently, but waiting for the next WordCamp to come along just seemed like it was inefficient.<\/p>\n<p>So what I really want to do is put out these videos of maybe concentrated versions of these talks.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of a 20-minute, 45-minute talk, or whatever, maybe just some short clips of key points that I would otherwise have put into a talk and have it more geared to a specific subject.<\/p>\n<p>So each video will be talking about one specific thing, as opposed to multiple topics, that a longer talk at a conference might otherwise have.<\/p>\n<p>My intention right now is to do a weekly video. We&#8217;ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n<p>The videos, I guess they probably won&#8217;t be too long. They might be five minutes max, or so.<\/p>\n<p>And I hope people are going to be able to get a lot out of it. I feel like there&#8217;s a lot to be learned from it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe no one&#8217;s going to watch these videos, who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, this is something that I&#8217;m passionate about and something that I really want to share more about.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to do these videos whether anybody&#8217;s watching or not. Hopefully people do, and hopefully people get a bunch out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I had such a good time this past weekend at WordCamp Denver talking about some of the lessons I learned as a soldier that I&#8217;m starting a new video series on the topic. 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