Wendell's Diary

I read a book about YouTube and its formula. I learned a lot of things that I am doing wrong. My titles are not good enough. I am going to have to get AI involved in my titles. And I can no longer not capitalise my titles. Apparently doing this causes people to click a lot less. I am going to put a lot more thought into my future videos. Presentation is everything when trying to encourage others to click on your links. I have to learn who my audience is. I need to discover what my audience likes and provide that to them. For so long I have struggled with who my audience is. Because I have never really had an audience, outside of stalkers. So I am unable to learn my audience without being able to engage with them. But I can never engage with them when the work doesn't attract new people to engage with. I am stuck in a catch 22. I have to first find my audience in order to learn what they like.  What are my goals? Honestly, I just want people to talk about philosophy with. Once I obt...

Getting into courses on Audible also got me into books. I have discovered a lot of interesting books lately. I have taken a little break taking courses and been occupying my time with books. Courses are hard. They require you to read the lecture notes after each lecture. That can be a lot of stress when you have to stop every half hour to read. It is so much more relaxing not having to read. I have taken the majority of courses that I really wanted to take. Now I will slow down and take my time completing courses. It got pretty stressful for a while there. I was taking four courses at a time, all with lecture notes accompanying them. I still have about four new courses lined up for my near future, but I don't think I will be so obsessive about completing them in a timely manner. They will always be there for me to resume where I left off once I get around to it. Right now though, I have a lot of good books that are taking presidence over my courses.  Physics was what broke my focus...