Daily Special

Exciting steps in the Daily Special journey to share

We do it for the love of it Back on my feet, back to doing the things I love: Solving complex technical problems, and bringing the community together. This summer has been rough. Between the ACL reconstruction, the crutches, the physical therapy, and the slow, unglamorous work of just getting my leg to bend again, it has been a season of sitting still when I wanted to be moving. So many of you have checked in, sent notes, asked how the knee is doing, and cheered me on even when there was not...

22 days ago • 2 min read

Slower than planned, clearer than expected.

Scar Tissue You do not come back unchanged. Sometimes that is the point. 7am, June 15th 2026, prepped and ready for surgery If you recall in last month's newsletter, I mentioned the bouldering accident I had in early March this year. Well, last month I had ACL reconstruction, which is a pretty major knee surgery. So whether I liked it or not, I really had to slow down. For someone who is used to moving fast, this has been uncomfortable. I am not great at sitting still. I am not great at...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

A knee brace, a laptop, and a plan

I've always been a little crazy But never reckless. Katie age 3. Nothing really changes. Two of the biggest moments in my career started with a crash. In 1997, I finally got someone to hire me at the local TV station. I had been trying, relentlessly, for more than a year. In the two weeks between getting the offer for a cable-wrangling job and my first day, I fell off my mountain bike on a gnarly downhill and broke my collarbone. I showed up on day one with an unset bone and my left arm in a...

3 months ago • 5 min read

Cheese Hinseng, interim CFO — chief feline officer — overseeing the early Daily Special planning process.

So what is Daily Special, actually?

The first email was about why I’m building Daily Special. This one is about what it actually is, and what it is designed to do for members. Not a post house. Not coworking. Something else. Daily Special is a membership-based post-production community and infrastructure platform built for the way media work happens now. It is designed for editors, assistants, producers, colorists, finishing artists, creators, small teams, and independent companies who need more than a home setup, but do not...

4 months ago • 3 min read

Since you're curious

A post house? In this economy? Crazy? Yes. Dumb? No. After three decades in post-production, I’ve been an artist, built and run facilities, and served as a studio executive. For the past decade, I’ve watched the legacy facility model struggle. I kept hoping someone would adapt it before it was too late. I’m done waiting. The community needs a radical new model to sustain the people doing the work, and the industry we all depend on. -Katie Open access to serious infrastructure The industry...

4 months ago • 2 min read