Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio You watching the Oscars on Sunday?
Mar 13, 2026
Quick takes on the pains of creating high-quality screencasts and lessons learned from a storyteller’s approach to teaching. A tour of current AI tool trends, fears about platform feature creep, and a tempting copy-on-write workflow idea. Reflections on AI-driven distraction and rebuilding better consumption habits. Notes on gym routines, protein struggles, and recent Oscar-season film binging.
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Struggling Through Screencast Production
- Caleb Porzio describes the misery of recording Laracasts and how he scrapped and re-recorded multiple videos before finding a stride.
- He spent days getting one video right, recorded five then rewrote them all, calling it like being handcuffed to his desk and 'chewing on glass.'
Story And Questions Make Learning Stick
- Caleb highlights Grant Sanderson's teaching principle that story and mystery create holes where knowledge fits.
- He used AI to 'Grant Sanderson-ify' his course and found questions and narrative are crucial to learning retention.
Use Copy On Write For Instant Project Snapshots
- Try copy-on-write project snapshots instead of heavy setup scripts to instantly experiment with parallel workstreams.
- Caleb explains copy-on-write mirrors the project until a file is edited, giving instant separate workspaces without long installs.