Hey ,
OMG Friday na agad? Shee
Was going through folio earlier this week, hunting for an AI video project I could use as sample for a prospect I'm going to pitch to.
I got to see my earlier AI video work. Then felt weird as I kept watching.
Grabe.
The cuts were way too long. The music was fighting the dialogue. There's a zoom in there I would never do now.
PERO... I was proud of that edit when I delivered it. I thought it was good. The client thought it was good too.
So what happened in between?
No new course was purchased. No sudden epiphanies or super saiyan breakthrough weeks. Nobody ever sat me down and told me "your cuts are too long."
What happened was several dozen ordinary edits that nobody but me will ever watch.
I GOT BETTER IN THE BORING PART, AND I DIDN'T NOTICE IT HAPPENING.
You can't feel yourself getting better while you're in it. You only find out later, when your old work looks bad to you. Can you relate ?
So if your old work looks bad to you now, that's the proof. Not a reason to cringe.
It's also why we're so bad at giving ourselves credit. Someone compliments the thing we do and we go "ah, I've just been doing it for years" — like the years made it smaller instead of bigger.
But here's where I was stuck for a long time.
You can't get your reps from client work alone. Those come maybe twice a month, and each one is too important to experiement on.
Parang sa AI skills lang din natin.
If we don't practice (aside from just talking to ChatGpt), we won't really grow our skills.
Kahit na something small, and cheap enough to be able to keep trying.
As long as it's yours.
Now I keep a few. This email, twice a week. A few apps I built. Little tools I build for my own work that nobody asked for.
Hey, I even built a quick site to show me what I've done so far.
18 Apps na pala. But I have to tell you that none of them are that impressive on their own. That's the point. They're where the reps go.
Which is the real reason I keep bringing up the Pilipinas AI Bootcamp.
Batch 5 is three live nights on Zoom — November 17, 19 and 24, 6-8PM, plus a mastermind on the 26th. Replays are yours to keep.
But the part that matters for this email: you don't walk out with notes. You walk out with things running. Your own page live with its own link. Your AI reading a Gmail thread and drafting the reply. A dashboard you made. A build you tested, broke, fixed, and handed over.
It could even be something meaningful for your clients, like what Jason plans to do. (Congrats on signing up!)
It's great if you have plans to apply the knowledge you'll get, but also you now have something to practice on after the Zoom closes.
That's like building your own resilience too, honestly.
Kasi I've watched more and more video editor and freelancer friends lose work this year. In fact I also lost a few clients to AI last year. And I noticed that the freelancers who are doing okay are the ones who already had their hands on these tools before they needed them.
Now the reason I'm emailing you on a friday: early bird ends TODAY, 11:59PM.
₱5,999 until tonight. ₱6,999 starting tomorrow. Registration itself closes Monday, November 16.
So if you've been sitting on the fence, tonight is the cheapest this gets.
It's application-based, so there's no instant checkout. All three of them read every application and send a payment link only if it's a fit. Nothing gets charged while they review. And the first 10 to join get a free 1-on-1 call with Rica, Ringring or Mil. (All of them are great at corny jokes, too! haha)
Apply here: https://www.pilipinasaibootcamp.com/?ref=shodensan
I won't recommend it if you're not using AI in your work yet, or if your next two weeks are already packed — what you start there needs room after to turn into a habit.
Pero, I'll highly recommend it if you want to equip yourself with tools that will help make you future proof as we navigate this crazy world of AI together.
I'm Batch 1, so yes, biased ngani hehe. My story is on their site, "His game director is 9 years old," which still makes me laugh: https://www.pilipinasaibootcamp.com/builds/shoden
Since then: a few clients, small apps that actually have users (konti pa lang), webinar funnels, brand partnerships. Basta may excuse to make, why not hehe.
So ikaw , ano yung matagal na mong ginagawa pero hindi mo na pinapansin? Reply and tell me.
Ako siguro yung pag-cut ng video. Years and years later, I still catch myself saying "wala lang, editor lang ako." hehe
Cheers,
Shoden "Old Folder" San
P.S. That bad old edit? I'm keeping it. Not to cringe at — it's the only way I can see how far I got. Save your old work, kahit yung nakakahiya. Pang kwento din yan.
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