2023-W45

🟩 Health and Recovery

https://www.sleep.com/sleep-health/sleeping-when-sick

🟩 Recipes

Rajas ingredients

Chuck steak, cook at 425 degrees, coat in salt and freshly cracked pepper

Turned out OK, but want to cook with my all-purpose seasoning next time and really coat the meat

🟩 Cooking

Indian food - those wraps at Praat of India, recipe licensing and proliferation

Learn to cook Indian food, more vegetable based - would be in line with Itzel’s interests in eating more plant based

🟩 YouTube & Content Creation

Amazon affiliate stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/17ruhud/this_is_how_you_extend_amazon_associate_cookies/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/17r27na/you_dont_have_imposter_syndrome_you_have_main/

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubers/comments/17qh0cs/i_am_begging_you_to_take_youtubes_creator_course/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/17o9gem/i_think_i_finally_understand_the_low_effort/

YT rss feeds for playlist - do they always update with newest items added or just ones as top of playlist?

YT taxes for ypp earnings: https://www.reddit.com/r/PartneredYoutube/comments/17rgqzb/how_bad_are_taxes_at_the_end_of_the_year/

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/5-habits-of-highly-successful-content-creators-list

Use the inverted pyramid structure for informational videos, provide the main meat up front, then additional details thereafter that can enrich, broaden, and contextualize matters better

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubers/comments/17qh0cs/i_am_begging_you_to_take_youtubes_creator_course/

https://www.youtube.com/creators/

Google EEAT

https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/173r7bn/evergreen_niche_can_you_just_leave_your_blog/

Evergreen videos seem to gradually gain prominence or views, but it’s maintainable: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/17f71cz/ever_created_an_evergreen_video/

Key content planning suggestion for evergreen video content, like get right to answering the viewer’s question

Valuing old content, evergreen: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/d4oqg4/evergreen_content_longterm_benefits/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/17rlfui/why_categories_like_vlogs_and_gaming_have_changed/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PartneredYoutube/comments/17o6a0q/whats_your_annual_income_from_youtube_ads_sponsors/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/17r27na/you_dont_have_imposter_syndrome_you_have_main/

Determining passive, baseline views and watch time to estimate when you might need to worry about monetization Likely use lowest traffic hours, multipled up to a full year to see if you’ll have the required 4000 watch hours Also determine baseline subscriber growth to determine possible passive attainment of 1000 subscribers for YPP

Zen Valedictorian ⇒ Zen YouTube Partner

Generally, people don’t come to the show to see you perform. They come for the experience, the performance. You’re a footnote. https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/17r27na/comment/k8hhnip/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

YT rss feed, any clue that person clicked in to a video via rss? Are video links tracked in Studio?

One thing that’s funny to me is that many big YouTube channels actually fail to implement things that would likely make themselves even more successful, like simply linking to relevant playlists in their video descriptions to drive traffic to videos their viewers would likely be interested in. They’re successful despite these things, leaving additional success on the table.

Don’t just copy big channels, as many of them don’t fully do optimal things.

Interest in vlogs: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewTubers/comments/17qmdnu/do_people_actually_like_vlogs_anymore/

🟩 Content Ideas

zero drop shoes disneyland Vaguely similar, but answering different question, more of a product review: https://youtu.be/zWF4rvW-8hA?si=tdR1GjdpMvjh8FcY

Limited-time deal: Wrestling Shoes Men Boxing Shoe Fitness Sneakers Zero Drop Sole https://a.co/d/1wqlkS3

The shoes review video with screenshots of Fitbit would be an opportunity to learn the video composition skills necessary for the skate stats idea. Swapping out images, using “combine”(?)

kdenlive video about it, around 2:30 or 2:40 https://youtu.be/3cTrdTNnOkk?si=aSMBhnbSw0o3qaap

kdenlive guide/tutorials for compositing: https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Transitions/Composite

Full video, it seems like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8hO4K7mZG4

Market of people with many interests! ⭐

Market of people with many interests and ideas, but who’d benefit a lot from focusing on a tight set of interests and aspirations for a while. Prioritizing things, among people with lots of things they want to do.

Seems like kind of a low aspiration, but I think I’d like to become a professional content creator

Suspect that the economy will contract pretty soon, so can think about making content oriented around that

🟩 People and Society

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/17r9rqq/what_are_some_things_that_you_wish_the_men_in/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/comments/dm0vyz/crazy_how_99_of_the_nerdy_girls_subreddits/

🟩 Writing

The writing bundle is still available, thru Nov: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/get-ready-for-nanowrimo-2023-books

Write that which you feel within your soul that you must explore. — For those who [are lost in terms of knowing what to write, or who struggle…]

from a dream, the early morning of Nov 11th

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism

https://www.reddit.com/r/SLEEPSPELL/ original fantasy writing

Fantasy writers! https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasywriters/

Fantasy subreddit, what about one for fantasy writing? https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/

https://moxiebooks.co.uk/writing-advice-from-professor-sir-terry-pratchett/

🟩 For language learning

There is something creatively freeing about writing and thinking in a second language, even (or possibly especially) as you’re learning it

WriteES subreddit to practice writing in Spanish https://www.reddit.com/r/WriteStreakES Lots of resources here in sidebar: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnspanish/

🟩 23

Space station hijacked and brought back to earth, crashing in metropolitan area. People who came in contact with the crash items start developing strange growths, seeable on X-ray scans, etc. Green growths.

Peak - selling it to the public as that you’re becoming better, enhanced, when in reality it’s a live experimentation, using willing guinea pigs. Notion is that you’ll never know your peak until you go through this; it’ll get you there, to your highest level of performance and health.

People wearing woven patches on their head or on their back. Usually the patches have some white showing, other times green specks among the white, other times full green to light green (like it’s dried out)

It’s like a mix between mold and moss. The people are getting transformed into people whose systems are actively being hijacked by a space parasite. The effects of it aren’t too clear, but more advanced cases seem to mostly disintegrate.

Saw pretty much a mound of moss that was a person. Saw a proud parent, wearijg a path, pushing a stroller with a fully green baby.

Saw a person’s face, scaled up in size and all but sewn into a wall - though it was not green, the skin seemed weirdly taut and cracking. This is one of the early strains, a way they manifest, but it seems to move slower than the general green one and thus is less prominent. (Multi strain, multi effect)

these wall forms are horrifying to behold.
their existence is a major surprise, as they’re quite shocking. But the reason they’re a surprise is that when the people were initially infected with this strain, it overtook them very quickly and completely. But it can’t spread easily and it can’t be mobile, so it can’t go around spreading itself out. (Immediate contact only, no spores)

Somewhat common to see people with the eye infections squinting the affected eye and moving it around to (actually) regain use of it, but for them it just restores a feeling of confidence that they can move it around and that it’s working correctly.

In a lot of ways this feels like the Expanse books with the protomolecule and how the firm is testing it on people. But they didn’t do open trials and try to sell it to the public. Also with this the effects aren’t fully revealed. This is all from a dream so it’s unclear what it’s inspired by, if anything.

🟩 God Magic

Some magic is much more plausible than others. God more readily uses things that are likely to escape notice, such as little things, slow things, invisible things (the wind), etc. This is not to say that he doesn’t use other things and that he doesn’t use things when it’s likely that they’ll be noticed.

In fact, some of the best known stories are those about occasions where God just went for it while everyone was watching.

But what I was getting at was that he tends to use the lesser noticed things. Mushrooms, for instance. If a person is having a bad day and suddenly they see a pretty little mushroom, they might feel better. And God likes that, so he sets those sorts of things up. He also likes, in that situation, a little bit of trickery that escapes the person’s attention. Yes, they might start to wonder about if they’d seen the mushroom in that spot once before. They’re pretty sure it wasn’t there the day before. And they “know” that mushrooms grow slowly, so they assume that it might have popped out of the ground sometime between yesterday, when they saw that the ground was bare, and today, when they see the little one. And with this, they feel extra contented. Little do they know, however, is that this was no conventional mushroom. Well, it is a regular mushroom, but it’s a regular one used in an irregular way: with God’s help, it formed only seconds prior to the vision of a mushroom appearing in the person’s peripheral vision. They’ll never know it, but he will.

God as a reality warper and weaver

Magic and miracles are violations of conventional reality. Not in terms of just how humans have conceived of reality, but, well, who’s to say that God truly doesn’t just make exceptions sometimes?

Magical realism, speculative nonfiction, fantasy

🟩 Self-Publishing

Fear of finishing, publishing an unfinished work and/or later updating it

What is an unfinished work? https://www.jstor.org/stable/24542661

treating youtube creation like selfpublishing

https://bookfunnel.com/pricing/ - got to experience it via purchasing the new edition of Creative Self-publishing

🟩 Knowledge creation

Relevant discussion about knowledge creation instead of just consumption: https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/xcofda/how_can_i_produce_knowledge_instead_of_just/

🟩 Economics

Time horizon, time preferences

Time discounting - term for this

hyperbolic discounting

🟩 Programming resource

https://regexcrossword.com/

https://www.paulox.net/2023/11/07/database-generated-columns-part-1-django-and-sqlite/ Django and sqlite

🟩 Music Capture & Dream music

Producing songs that dial up their tempo, starting out slower with a beat but push it faster and faster to see how it goes on different time scales (beat scales?). Up and down in tempo, playing with that, possibly layering in other sounds that also change in tempo.

stretching out time scales and shrinking them down - either just affecting time between the hitting of regular keys or affecting their sound, too, with the latter like you’re stretching out a rasterized image of the music whereas with the former it’s just putting more space between separate images
time warping in music design - playing with sound and music

Don’t worry about “the right way” of capturing the music and working on it and playing with it the right way. Just go for it, have fun, explore the space.

🟩 Gaming

Redeem on GOG Galaxy app: 8D9Y4ED3BAD726049E

MTG FNM skits: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKh22aWLmVFDtPKuCH4Q7yVITUBnXGPSb

Pokemon TCG how to play: https://youtu.be/DSfBJ-EeFhc?si=J7pu6XiorCeKx6uu

Game Room reservation

Great Escape Games: “Hello, the prices for our 2 Private rooms is $15 f or t h e d a y . O u r bi g p r i v a t e P a r t y R oo mi s$ 50 per hour (negotiable). Our entire store has access to the WiFi. And all private rooms have outlets.”

For how many people fit comfortably in each room: “Depends on the season. Since it’s an enclosed space it gets warm. There’s space for 8 to sit comfortably, but might get a bit stuffy. 6 is usually fine.”

Considering going there for in-person digital MTG play; low priority for me, though

🟩 Learning Spanish

Sueños 1 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65999

Sueños II https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66262

🟩 Seasonal Psychology

Effects of daylight savings, which occurred this morning https://apnews.com/article/daylight-saving-2023-fall-back-a3738d5c74301b8068825927c49fc6b4

🟩 Prioritization

Stuff to do in free time https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/17q6jiq/people_who_wfh_how_the_f_do_you_fill_your_free/

🟩 Priorities - Learning Spanish

Find/suggest a book, convey Mexican culture to foreigner, like Shogun for Mexico?

🟩 Wisdom

It isn’t a uniquely Christian idea that you can be the source of your own demise, but I think it is more prominent in the texts (not current culture, unfortunately)

I have a habit of putting myself in other people’s shoes. If I hear someone speaking against the actions and thoughts of someone else, I lapse into imagining myself doing or thinking those same things and what would compel me to do so. Whereas other people just flatly laugh and mock.

Never forget that you can be the bad guy, even (or especially) when you think otherwise.

🟩 Medieval life

Tv show plebs Pentiment

🟩 Game design and development

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedesign/comments/gkcitb/what_is_rgamedesign_for_this_is_not_a_general/

Tactical Typos