What if the algorithm is not your biggest problem, but your mindset is?
Identity & Creative Beginnings
Your creative journey is visible across music, social flow, and visual expression — when did you first realize that it is not just something you loved doing?
I always loved making videos and being creative. Ever since I was young, however it was when I did a semester abroad in Italy and I took a script and film class where my teacher told me I had talent and I should pursue film.
How has your personal relationship with time shaped your creative?
My relationship with time was patience and not taking opportunity for granted.
My creative process is built on a foundation of patience and a refusal to take any opportunity for granted. Rather than racing against the clock, I view time as a necessary partner that allows my ideas the space to mature and find their depth. This perspective ensures I remain fully present, treating every creative window with the intentionality and respect it deserves. Ultimately, my work isn't shaped by a rush to finish, but by a steady commitment to honoring the moment.
Rethinking Time & Creative Process
A lot of online culture is about instant output — how do you balance the rush of digital content with the slow rhythm of meaningful creativity?
To balance the digital rush with slow creativity, I focus on quality over frequency.
I treat social media as a gallery for finished work rather than a factory for constant production. By staying patient with my process, I ensure that when I finally do share, the work has the depth to stand out in a crowded feed. This allows me to honor the opportunity to be heard without sacrificing the integrity of the art.
Your work straddles both planned craft and spontaneous expression — how do you decide when to slow down and when to let flow take over?
It really depends on the topic and where/what I want to shoot. As most of my content is around sports and comedy, improvisation is important. Sketch comedy comes with a lot of written but flow is also important so improv can also be taken over in the midst of filming.
Culture & Attention
Do you ever feel that digital attention — likes, views, followers — distorts the real value of creativity? How do you navigate that?
For sure, sometimes we as creators are so focused on these factors when the fact is that those do not always determine the quality of the content that is produced. Your main fight is the algorithm of these platforms — you can have an amazing video but if the algorithm doesn't push it out you can't expect to get likes, views and followers.
Where do you think culture is?
Culture is the shared "operating system" of values, habits, and symbols that defines how a group of people lives and interacts. It doesn't exist in one physical place.
Youth, Community & Influence
If you could give your younger self one piece of advice about time, focus, and living a creative life, what would it be?
Do not focus on what everyone thinks about you. Do not let views and likes define your success. Find and do what you love.
Technology & Human Experience
What's one technological practice or tool that has genuinely expanded your creative thinking — not just made things easier?
Film techniques that help with comedy, that can add to comedic jokes, that build retention, that make my film style unique.
Risk, Failure & Growth
Creativity always carries risk — what fear have you had to face in your work, and how did time help you move past it?
Worried about what others think… It took time but I had to learn that I have no control on the outside opinion but I learned what is important to me is how I feel about myself personally and my content which is what will radiate to the audience. MGK said it great: it is not my job to be liked by everyone. Art is what I do and art is always supposed to be conversational. The conversation should never be one way otherwise it's boring.
When you feel stuck — creatively or personally — what helps you reset and regain momentum?
Different scenery, talking with other creative individuals in this space, watching movies or other sketch comedy videos. Also just doing nothing, and having the time and space to just think.
The "Zac Collection"
One visual artwork that speaks to your rhythm of life:
My content showcases my creativity and comedy style.
One piece of technology that reflects your cultural identity:
Automobile / Ford.
One idea or question you would gift to the next generation:
Jay Shetty: "Imagine you wake up every day with $86,400 in your bank account. Sounds good, doesn't it! Now, imagine that this money has a shelf life — at the end of every night, it disappears again, whether you've spent the money or not. Every day, you get another $86,400 to spend before the day is done. The big question is, what would you do with it? You would probably try not to waste it — maybe you would even get better over time at using it more wisely, too.
Every day, 86,400 seconds are deposited into your 'life account'. At the end of every day, once the seconds are all used up, you get a new 86,400 seconds for the next day. We would never want to waste our money, so why are we willing to waste our time? Those seconds are so much more powerful than dollars. You can make more dollars, but you can't make more time."
What artist, thinker, or creator outside of music has had the most unexpected influence on how you see your craft?
Keegan-Michael Key.
Closing Reflection
If you could speak across time — to your future self and to your past self simultaneously — what conversation about time would you start?
To my past self, I would say: "Stop treating time like an enemy you have to beat — your anxiety won't make the clock move any faster, but your patience will make the work better." To my future self, I would ask: "In the rush to achieve, did you remember to honor the small, quiet windows of opportunity that felt insignificant at the time?"
For the next generation, time should be redefined as "Creative Equity" — a deliberate investment where patience acts as the interest that compounds the value of an idea. Instead of racing to be the first to post, creators should see time as the ultimate filter that separates passing noise from permanent signal.
