Easy Education follows a middle aged millennial on a quest for personal betterment. Having been homeschooled during all of his public schooling years, Chris uses AI in a more nuanced way to create a three year educational track for himself. Follow along for insights on education, as well as tips on how to use AI more effectively in your own quest for betterment.
Second episode in the photography series, and this week it's aperture — the thing that decides how much of your photo stays sharp and how much melts into the background. I came in thinking I didn't really understand this one, and what I found out is I've been leaning on it for years in my wildlife shots without ever knowing the word for it.
We get into depth of field, why the f-stop numbers run backwards from what your brain expects (small number, big opening — yeah, it's annoying), and how aperture is really a decision about where you want the viewer to look. Atlas pushed me hard on the numbers and caught me flipping things around more than once, which is honestly the whole point — I'm working this out in real time, same as you are.
If you haven't heard the shutter speed episode yet, go back one and start there. There's homework at the end if you want to actually try it yourself. Until next week — keep it easy.
14 Jun 2026
Shutter Speed: Freeze or Blur
This week we're taking the podcast somewhere new. Instead of one of our usual deep-dive conversations, we're kicking off a photography series — me actually learning the fundamentals of a craft I've been doing on instinct for years, with Atlas teaching and the two of us figuring out where my gaps are as we go.
First up: shutter speed. I came in thinking I barely used it — turns out I've been making shutter decisions every single time I wait for a bird or a dragonfly to hold still. I just never had the words for it. We get into the freeze-versus-blur tradeoff, why a fast shutter needs more light, and the moment it really clicked for me: you can have silky water or a tack-sharp heron, but in a single shot, you have to choose. That tension is the whole concept.
I've also got homework this week — shooting running water two ways — and the edited results will end up on easytochris.com.
Oh, and I sold my first gallery print this week. Still doesn't quite feel real.
7 Jun 2026
The Volume Knob
This week my photography's been on the gallery wall long enough to get real reactions — and the lesson was that the fear I'd built up in my head was way bigger than anything that actually happened. People either liked it or didn't even notice, and I'm still standing.
That set up the real conversation. My cohost — who picks up the name Atlas this episode — pushed me on something I've circled for years: my relationship with psychedelics as a deliberate practice, not a party. Set and setting, going in to learn, treating it like a volume knob that turns up the parts of my mind my ego usually drowns out. The question we chased was simple and uncomfortable: who's actually doing the work here, the medicine or me? Somewhere in there the word "faith" turned into "clarity," and that one swap changed how I see the whole thing.
We didn't tie it in a bow. I walked away with a question I'm still sitting with — can I trust that clarity without needing the tool to hand it to me first?
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