I am happy to announce that I have started a podcast. Right now it’s used to distribute the audio-only version of my YouTube videos, but in the future I might add other episodes as well. Subscribe here: Apple Podcast Google Podcast Spotify Breaker Overcast Pocket Casts RadioPublic Anchor RSS feed Enjoy!
Category: Happiness
Why I Started Doing Laughter Yoga
Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a modern exercise involving prolonged voluntary laughter. This type of yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides similar physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter. I wanted to try laughter yoga for a long time. After unsuccessful attempts of finding good sessions on YouTube, I found was I…
How I Became An Elon Musk Believer
Maren Kahnert, who is running the excellent website Elon Musk Interviews, has recently started Elon Musk Experience, a website that collects stories of how people learned about Elon and how this has affected their lives. Below is the story I have sent to her. After Steve Jobs died in 2011, people started referring to Elon…
What I Learned in My First Month as a YouTuber (Or How to Grow a YouTube Channel in 2021)
It has now been a month since I started my YouTube channel. In the spirit of “beginner’s mind” and “learning in public” I want to document my progress over time. Here’s what I learned so far: Current milestones Total Subscribers: 247 (subscribe here) Total Views: 11,885 Number of videos: 12 Videos per week: ~2 First…
Apple MacBook Air (M1) Review: Gamechanging Speed
I only use one computer, and I have been using my MacBook Air 2015 for ages now. I’ve squeezed out every last drop of juice, but it has become unbearable. It was just too slow. Why did I wait so long? Apple had this huge keyboard mess, and also to be honest I wasn’t a…
How to Balance Creative Work vs. Inspiration: Jim Collins’s Simple Life Tracking Spreadsheet
Last year, I started tracking my creative hours with the help of Jim Collins’s simple life tracking spreadsheet: How many hours spent doing creative work A quality score for the day (+2, +1, 0, -1, -2) A note of what happened that day Here’s how my sheet looks like: Download Excel Template Number of Creative…
YouTube Experiment: Attracting People With Tesla Videos, and Teaching Them Secret Lessons
Sometimes, new projects come unexpected. Last week, I felt the urge to create my very first YouTube video, reacting to a stock analyst warning about Tesla stock. The video was more successful than I ever hoped possible, reaching 500 views in just a few days. So an idea was born: Today, I created my second…
2020 Year in Review
This year was a good reminder that most major events come unexpected and are unpredictable. It’s always fun to write down some hopes and expectations, but the reality often turns out to be different. As always, the best thing we can do is to focus on our input (what we control), and not worry about…
Show up for a decade
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” — Bill Gates Good things take time A human needs 20 years to grow into an adult A tree needs 10 to 30 years to reach full size An olive tree needs 65 to 80 years…
Life Lessons from Kai-Fu Lee
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the former President of Google China, artificial intelligence expert, venture capitalist, and author of the wonderful book AI Superpowers. He recently gave a talk, highlighting his key life lessons: 1. Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life At Columbia University, he fell in love with…