How to Grow a YouTube Channel | 10 Small Youtuber Problems - YouTube
[The strategies established creators use are not the ones that got them where they are. Play to your strengths instead of comparing approaches.]
[If you enjoy making videos and feel like it's making a difference in your life, it doesn't matter how many subscribers you have. Worrying about numbers is called "going to work".]
15 Tips for STARTING a Successful YouTube Channel in 2023
[Having Ideas which reflect that you understand your audience.]
Let's talk about what they're going after next....
[Don't throw your hands up just because it's not a permanent solution: we're in for a long fight.]
Let's talk about why countries don't follow the manual....
[It's not the side who can dish out the most that wins, but the side who can take the most.]
Creating Community Wherever You Go with Digital Nomad Alex Salinsky
[A couple of people are having dinner at this place (which isn't true the first few times, but later on it is), would you like to join us?]
[Give people something to say yes to; they may even be relieved if they were looking to have plans for the evening.]
The 2nd Winter Moon Cycle: Thoughts on Covid-19, Vaccination, VAERS, and Related Topics
[What kills people from COVID is the overreaction of their immune system to a pathogen.]
[A 'strong' immune system is bad language.]
Let's talk about improv and talking to liberals and centrists....
[Five rules of improv: 1) yes, and…; 2) no open ended questions; 3) make them look good; 4) no need to be funny; 5) tell a story and keep it going.]
[Centrist lack a theoretical framework, keep it focused on right and wrong.]
The roads to funding your community network projects....
[Make goals that are quantifiable, and achievable: big enough to matter and small enough to win. You want to overshoot your goal every single time. Set it up so that you win every single time.]
[In pre-advertising: announce what you're going to do and how people can get involved.]
[Naming your benefactors might create a burden of association when you are perceived as divisive. Maybe don't tell them or mention them until its done.]
[Remind people of the cause but don't focus on the negative aspect so that people walk away feeling positive. If they feel bad, they won't return.]
[Don't guess what they need: ask them.]
[Delivering on the goal means not failing: if you're short, cover out of pocket.]
[Document the delivery so that the people involved can see it after and feel good about making it happen.]
Making people feel they're participation made the difference isn't just for humility, it's to help them feel their impact.
Tagged: contribute.
Let's talk about baseless claims about a guy named Ray....
[If someone encourages a crime but doesn't engage and that warrants arrest, then it would be ground to charge the politicians who did the same.]
[The popular usage of NFTs is a mechanism to convince people to buy more crypto, thus providing liquidity for early entrants.]
[The average user on spam NFT Discords is middle-class with disposable income and uncertain about their financial future.]
[Flexing by way of buying a Times Square ad is to signal credibility to validate buyers sense of having made the right decision.]
[Sell the token first and leave 'token holders' to decide what happens with the capital, if they overcome collective inertia—there is no product.]
[Putting all the data in one place, even if it's in a space you 'control', is centralizing (specifically as a point of failure.]
[Broadcasting your unique identifier across the internet feeds into a surveillance ecosystem.]
[When the technical cost of making a modern website became to high for most amateurs, they moved from templates to services and then platforms.]
[DAOs settle for only expressing procedural group operations through code because it's too complicated to design and account for all contingencies and their contingencies.]
[Crypto evangelist want to relegate all consequences to machines via blockchains and DAOs to abdicate humans of any responsibility for bad outcomes.]
[Picking my phone, looking at the lock screen, and putting it down again is enough for me to take a break.]
[Apps that check in by asking 'are you still watching?']
[Technology provides a sense of bubble-ness, a place to go. Like a parent that's always there for you.]
[Acknowledge the different parts of you that might be in conflict with each other.]
Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience
[Describe interesting things you've done in your life to build credibility: share what you learned or what someone like you would want to know.]
[You can document things that have already happened. Some of it might resonate with others.]
[An indicator of credibility is that people will want to ask you questions to learn more about your experience.]
[It wasn't the book, but documenting how I published it that gave me credibility in self-publishing.]
[Success is not followers but people wanting to hear what you have to say.]
[They either need to be getting something from you or getting to know you as a person.]
[Giving means they stop on your tweet and don't regret it. Asking means anything that benefits you directly, like clicking links.]
[Use your pinned tweet to gain credibility.]
[Inspiration can be something interesting that happened today, things that took a lot of effort to figure out, answers you gave in your conversations that could be relevant to your audience.]
[Find the intersection of interesting to you, interesting to your audience, and having credibility to say it.]
[Don't tag people hoping they'll notice you.]
[Build your credibility, promote it everywhere, and look for opportunities to build more credibility.]
[Give and ask with a seven to one ratio.]
Are We Living in a Golden Age?
[When something succeeds and everyone rushes in, creating a hug of death.]
Let's talk about disaster relief being transformative....
[Disaster relief is like a PhD course in activism: after you've done it, nothing phases you because you have done it underthe worst possible conditions.]
Let's talk about the thing we missed in Crenshaw's speech....
[Education destroys fear.]
The roads to understanding misinformation....
[If a headline provokes an emotional reaction, be on guard. They should pique your curiosity more than convince you to form an opinion. Inform over inflame.]
[Name-dropping like 'ex-Clinton staffer' might be pulling things out of context to create a first question.]
[Quoting a figure like Trump in the headline is a way to defer attention.]
[The context of a poll, how it was collected, is as important as the findings.]
[Meme images are often presented out of context. Use reverse image search to find other places where it's displayed. Some people rotate it to make tracking sources more difficult, so if you also rotate it and find results, you know it was intentional.]
[The words 'seems', 'appears', 'apparently' is an indication of opinion about intent.]
[If the outlet has something new for you to be outraged every day and cut yourself off from society, be on guard.]
Let's talk about how to pick a charity....
[Charities that hire talented people can give donors more confidence, even if the organization isn't well-known.]
Ali Abdaal / Deep Dive | Derek Sivers
[Instead of asking if someone is free to talk, just call: the ringtone is the ask.]
Let's talk about Thanksgiving with your liberal mom....
[Frame it as a dream because in some cases people like to make dreams come true.]
'How can I be present?' - A conversation with Casey Sokol
[To be in the present of one note versus one phrase versus one movement versus one concert versus one lifetime.]
[I'm not depressed, I'm bored. Bored as in not interested in anything. Interested as in not having a direction for my energy.]
[Pain is a sensation. Suffering is the negation of that experience.]
