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I’m PJ Milani. I’ve been teaching high school filmmaking, animation, and visual effects for over 17 years. The focus of this blog is currently a work in progress, but I’m currently trying to work on things that provide value to the world outside of my classroom.
How to Make Better Decisions When You’re Stressed and Emotional
An approach to overcome negative self-talk.
What I Learned From Cooking 100 New Dishes
A year ago in December 2020, I made a goal to cook a 100 new dishes in a year. Here’s what I learned from the process. 1. Most of what I cook is yellow and brown. I love me that Maillard reaction…either something’s up with my camera or I have a penchant for cooking yellow-brown…
See Like Tim Ferriss
These are the distilled actionable and practical frameworks that I’ve learned from people whose thinking I admire.
A Simple Method to Start a New Habit
There are a bunch of time interval based rules out there, but this one happens to be somewhat useful, especially if you don’t even know where to start.
The Three Things I Learned from 3rd Grade Band
It wasn’t a top notch program. I wasn’t a top notch student. But I still managed to learn something from it.
Is that why they call it a “bucket list?”
How my problem of being unable to make decisions has turned me into a donkey.
Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions
What do Johann Sebastian Bach, Edgar Alan Poe, and Emily Dickinson have in common with badass action heroes?
How to Decide If You Have Time
This is a logistical breakdown of how much time we actually have to help decide what new goals we want to take on.
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I’m PJ Milani. I’ve been teaching high school filmmaking, animation, and visual effects for over 17 years. While my main areas of expertise are teaching and filmmaking, I have a wide array of curiosities including personal development, the psychology of relationships, and parenting. Read more