Still Becoming
Most people spend their lives trying to figure out who they are in the secretive nobody-gets-in-without-a-key parts of their mind.
Mark Steiner is doing it in public.
This is his workshop. His playground. His ongoing experiment in creative entropy. A place where weird, wild, wonderful, and who-the-hell-knows-what’s-coming-next collide.
After decades of making things — films, businesses, music, a wee bit of chaos — Mark is finally asking the real question: Yes?
You might be questioning that question: “Isn’t yes an answer?”
Yes?
Ha, gotya. You see, yes as a question is an open affirmation. Should Mark try belly dancing? Yes? Should he drive to Alaska? Yes? Should he collect stamps? Yes?
Yes as the answer to the question is more of a why not, more of a let’s-see-what-happens, more of an accurate answer when you know enough to know that you don’t know everything, and you can’t wait to learn more and more even it it means realizing you know less and less.
This site is “Yes?” taking shape.
Mark’s been a lot of things. Actor. Craft services guy feeding film sets. Talent booker. Accidental tech CEO who built something big without a business degree. Rainbow teddy bear manufacturer teaching kids about acceptance. Jersey kid with moxie who somehow made it all work.
The through-line and engine driving it all? Curiosity over comfort.
Why pick one thing when seven seem more interesting?
Why stay still when there is something worth chasing?
Why fit the mold if the mold is boring?
For years, he thought this was a problem.
Scattered. Too much. Never quite right.
Then, an ADHD diagnosis as an adult. Midlife revelation. Not broken. Just wired differently.
The “flaw” was the feature all along.
- People who love asking questions and pursuing the answers wherever they might lead
- Midlifers refusing to calcify
- Anyone told they have “too many interests”
- Creative spirits who connect dots others miss
- Detour takers
- Synesthetes
- Recovering cynics
- Unashamed enthusiasts
- If you’re still reading, definitely you
After decades of making things — films, businesses, music, a wee bit of chaos — Mark is finally asking the real question: Yes?
You might be questioning that question: “Isn’t yes an answer?”
Yes?
Ha, gotya. You see, yes as a question is an open affirmation. Should Mark try belly dancing? Yes? Should he drive to Alaska? Yes? Should he collect stamps? Yes?
Yes as the answer to the question is more of a why not, more of a let’s-see-what-happens, more of an accurate answer when you know enough to know that you don’t know everything, and you can’t wait to learn more and more even it it means realizing you know less and less.
This site is “Yes?” taking shape.
Mark’s been a lot of things. Actor. Craft services guy feeding film sets. Talent booker. Accidental tech CEO who built something big without a business degree. Rainbow teddy bear manufacturer teaching kids about acceptance. Jersey kid with moxie who somehow made it all work.
The through-line and engine driving it all? Curiosity over comfort.
Why pick one thing when seven seem more interesting?
Why stay still when there is something worth chasing?
Why fit the mold if the mold is boring?
For years, he thought this was a problem.
Scattered. Too much. Never quite right.
Then, an ADHD diagnosis as an adult. Midlife revelation. Not broken. Just wired differently.
The “flaw” was the feature all along.
- People who love asking questions and pursuing the answers wherever they might lead
- Midlifers refusing to calcify
- Anyone told they have “too many interests”
- Creative spirits who connect dots others miss
- Detour takers
- Synesthetes
- Recovering cynics
- Unashamed enthusiasts
- If you’re still reading, definitely you
When Mark Isn’t Mark
Acting was Mark’s first yes. The thing that taught him to ask “What if I tried being someone else for a while?” Turns out, that question never stops being useful.
And once you learn to inhabit different perspectives professionally, it’s hard to stop doing it everywhere else.
Still acting. Still exploring. Still ready to ponder the possibilities of interesting parts, people, and projects.
Pssssssssst
Some real and really big things are in the works. Check ‘em out.