KARLBENION
Video Producer → Automation Director
Before I was an automation director, I was a video producer. I ran shoots, cut timelines, built production infrastructure — and in the process developed a systems brain I didn't have language for yet.
That mental model carried over completely. The tools changed. The way I think about workflow, bottlenecks, and what needs to be built didn't. Today I work in automation and AI, and I write about both — the technical side and the life around it.
This is The Kool Life. Some posts are about systems I'm building. Some are about creativity, events I attend, things I'm reading. No specific agenda. Just what's on my mind.
KB
Our
Own
Lives
The Kool Life started as an idea I had around fifteen. I wanted an acronym for KOOL, and what I landed on was Creating Our Own Lives. My name starts with a K — so the K is mine, and the rest is the point.
You create a kool life through lifelong learning and action.
I'm a creative at heart and a lifelong learner. The way I see it, a kool life isn't something you find — it's something you build, deliberately, out of the things you're passionate about and curious enough to keep chasing. That's what this site is. Some of it is the systems and automation work I do. Some of it is creative work, events, things I'm reading and figuring out. All of it is me trying to live that idea out loud.
Start with
the blog
Writing about automation, AI, creativity, and whatever else is interesting to me right now.