This week has been strangely busy but from a start-up assist point of view. I’ve been updating the i-scribe.com.au website and having meetings to see how I can help anaemate.com.au too. This along with course work has meant that even though I haven’t worked much clinically, the days really have been quite full!
One of the friends I made from the trips with Samsung last year is also visiting Melbourne currently. During the Seoul trip, Calvin and I ended up just wandering the streets at 2am looking for photo opportunities. It was very nice of him to drop by during this visit.
You might’ve noticed a few Youtube videos that I’ve made over the last few years. As far as milestones go, the channel now has over 2000 subscribers! On the scale of all things Youtube, this is tiny. However, I try and imagine what 2000 people looks like and it’s enough to fill a small venue!
The other milestone that I’ll likely be hitting in the next few days is 3000 watch hours in the last 365 days. Youtube is a platform that rewards views and watch time. For you to be monetized on there, you actually need 4000 hours in the last 365 days, but they have a mini tier when you hit 3k. As I write this, I’m sitting at 2989 hours.
This is the thing that has made me pause and think about all things scalable. Videos take a TON of time and effort to make, but after they’re done, it’s no effort for future people to watch. I started off doing this as a way to learn video editing/story telling while also making videos about things people always asked me about: technology. To think that now, on any given day, people are watching my videos for 8ish hours is mind-blowing!
The other that blows my mind is this graph right now:
Now the view counts isn’t anything amazing but does really blow my mind is that EVERY hour, someone, somewhere is watching one of my videos.
Isn’t that astonishing?
To think that you could impact a stranger anywhere in the world by sitting in a room and talking to a camera is something that I find so strange but exciting that seeing that graph is weirdly motivating. It really makes me want to get better at the craft of being able to present well since there’s plenty of click-bait-y, regurgitated information out there that wastes everyone’s time. Maybe, just maybe, I might be able to do a better job…