SJB Video Notes
Talking head — outline and tone
Tone first, because it shapes everything: warm, curious, slightly amused by your own situation. Not pitching. Not performing. The feeling of someone who has been doing something unusual for a long time and has made peace with the fact that most people don't know what to make of it — but who's genuinely delighted when they do.
Kyle's opening is perfect. Start there.
WHY "BRAINS" PLURAL?
→ I have two: the one in my head, and the one on screen
→ The one on screen: TheBrain software, 1998, 625,000+ nodes
→ Everything I've read, thought, questioned, met — linked together
→ It's public. Anyone can explore it right now.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I BRING IT INTO A ROOM
→ Someone asks me anything — literally anything
→ I navigate live, no script, no slides
→ The graph reorganizes around whatever we're exploring
→ I narrate what I'm seeing — the surprises, the connections,
the things that show up next to each other unexpectedly
→ The audience steers. I follow.
THE THING THAT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN UNTIL YOU SEE IT
→ It's not a demo. It's not a talk.
→ It's watching someone think — 28 years of thinking —
in real time, about whatever you care about
→ People leave differently. Not with notes.
With a new sense of how things connect.
THE CLOSE
→ Ask me something that matters.
→ [stumpjerrysbrain.com or just: reach out]
On the "unique and valuable" thing — Kyle's instinct to be indirect is right. Don't say "this is unique and valuable." Instead, just demonstrate the strangeness of it. "Someone asked me about medieval alchemy in a session about AI futures. It was in there. And it was connected to things nobody expected." One specific example lands harder than any claim about uniqueness.
The moment you want viewers to feel: I have never seen anything quite like that, and I want to know what it would do with my question.
Brain recording instructions:
Open TheBrain (desktop app is better than the web version for recording quality). Navigate to a node you find visually interesting with good connections — "Sensemaking", "Trust", or "Design from Trust" would all work well. Open QuickTime → File → New Screen Recording → record just the TheBrain window. Navigate naturally for 60–90 seconds, visiting 3–4 connected nodes, narrating quietly to yourself so you remember the path. Export as MP4, name it brain-demo.mp4. When you drop it on Netlify, include both index.html and brain-demo.mp4 together. Then tell me and I'll swap the placeholder SVG for the actual video tag in one line.