Unclear ROI unless your job is teaching people how to grow their audience It’s still social media Getting sucked into the attention economy Cheap tricks get attention (see post picture) – “Am I some conjurer of cheap tricks?” Saying something dumb. I don’t want dumb as part of my “personal brand” Exposing something private Hurt…
Me: “what are some good books to read for black history month?” GenAI starts listing some books like it normally would, then…the response got erased and I was left with. GenAI: “Hmm…it looks like I can’t chat about this. Let’s try a different topic.” This was weird and disturbing. I had to double-check what I…
Do you really think so little of yourself that you can’t sacrifice an hour or two, 3-4 days a week, for yourself? Harsh. But sometimes that’s what we need to hear. The full version of this quote talks about how we give hours of ourselves to our jobs, our friends, and our family before we…
This video builds off of the previous part 1 video. We are starting with a list of AI generated keywords for a YouTube video. We will sort them based on their VidIQ score and pick the top 8. Previously we had to manually create the record for each keyword with its score. Now, we will…
Specific: Clearly define what you want to accomplish. Avoid vague descriptions. Print books. Read end-to-end. Measurable: Ensure you can track your progress and measure the outcome. 5 books a month. I tracked the books on my planning whiteboard and checked them off as I completed them. Achievable: Set realistic goals that are attainable given your…
KISS – You wanted the worst; you got the worst. It’s KISS! These guys have a few decent mediumish-rock songs and that’s about it. There are metalheads whose opinion I respect who love KISS, but I just don’t get it. Everything about them is the opposite of what metal should be. Maybe if you were…
“Aspiring artists share one trait. They all think like amateurs. They have not yet turned pro. The moment an artist turns pro is as epochal as the birth of his first child. With one stroke, everything changes.” Make 2025 the year that you turn pro in whatever your art may be. Take it seriously. Put…
Starting with a list of keywords, we sort them by their VidIQ scores and select the top 8. In the previous video ( • AI and Automation to add YouTube Vide… ), we asked GenAI to give us 6-8 tags. In this case, we ask for 30 potential keywords that we will whittle down to 8. We start with those keywords in cell A1….
Wrapping up December with five more book to reach an even 60 for the year. 🎉 🩹Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath Why do we remember some ideas and why do we immediately forget others. This book covers techniques to create and examples of ideas that people will remember. 🏫Deschooling Society by…
How we suffer tends to adapt to our reality. If we become accustomed to first-class travel, we may suffer when sitting in coach. This isn’t something wrong with us, it’s human nature. We need to watch out for hedonic adaptation and choose our comforts wisely. It has been quite cold where I live this week….