It feels like a phone call from a friend on a trip. It's even better and more informal when he peppers it with photos. We shared his surprise. This is not how standalone essays are usually written. Real life is not filtered and ordered for understanding or skimming.
Good essays are.
He is also quite good at both, which will help control the experiment better. When we first started Trellix Corporation a few years ago, I bought a digital camera for experimentation. I hoped to use it to archive our designs on the whiteboard. This didn't prove very popular , and we rarely used this technique. A lot of time went into transcribing whiteboards.