Have you seen people turn skills learned through gaming streams into opportunities in live production or other fields?
ASKED BY · Josh Kaufman · PITTSBURGH, PA, USA · 03 NOV 2026 · ▶ 00:49:06
His daughter built Minecraft servers and now pursues broadcast engineering; gaming teaches 3D spatial thinking, camera positioning, and composition skills that transfer directly to professional production work.
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49:04go to the next question we're getting close here to the end josh kaufman is up next in pittsburgh pennsylvania have you seen people turn skills learned through gaming streams into opportunities opportunities in live production or other fields? I think my daughter's a good example of that. I mean, she plays, she built her own Minecraft server. And I, from what I understand, she'll
49:28always tell me, she's like, well, that's not hard to do, dad. I don't know how to do it. So I'm like, okay. So if you guys are familiar with Minecraft and you'd say, oh yeah, it's easy. Well, okay. But I can't do it, but she builds her own server and has her own stuff going on that. And she, She transitioned. She saw what I was doing with this, and I've taught her everything,
49:50and now she's going to go to school for production because she wants to be a broadcast engineer in some capacity. And so it's kind of stuck because that same thing where you're positioning a character on the screen to get a power-up or whatever, she's doing the same thing with a talent. She's positioning them on the screen. She's looking like if she's playing a game and she goes,
50:11goes, man, I can't see that item right or that pit that I have to jump across. She brings that same mentality into production. She'll be like, Dad, if you move one more time forward, she's like, I am going to put duct tape to your feet, and you're going to stand there. She'll go around and put tape on the floor, and she'll say, do not pass this.
50:31Do not go past. I mean, that's – but all that's learned from doing the stuff that she does in games. She's like, we can't get a good view on this. And I remember when she was little, she used to say, stuff like that too like i can't see this is a stupid camera angle on this game she's she's thinking in three dimensions because she lived in those three dimensions her entire life which
50:52kids unless they lived on that rim of a canyon didn't get a chance to do as much yeah it's perfect perfectly sensible to me let's go on to our next question eduardo augustine in panama city asks besides youtube do you still follow through your career in a regular nine to five or is this YouTube channel and convention production become your business? I wish it became my business.