Is YouTube Infrastructure? – Pixel Envy

video is special. It is cumbersome; it requires complex arrangements to serve it efficiently and reliably. But some of those barriers are becoming less foreboding, giving us more places to post and watch videos. It was not so long ago that YouTube was the only name in general-purpose video hosting. Yet you can now publish to most any social network. Instagram and TikTok host a different type of video but, for lots of people, they are just as relevant as YouTube. Alternatives like Rumble and X are appearing for the perpetually aggrieved set who are convinced their broadcasts would be censored elsewhere. Yet there is nothing else quite like YouTube.

#internet #platforms #youtube #media #social media #video

·pxlnv.com·Feb 19, 2025

Is YouTube Infrastructure? – Pixel Envy

The Rise Of The Generalist (How To Thrive With Multiple Interests) - Dan Koe

We are in a second renaissance where the creator economy is growing exponentially and people are turning to creators to learn skills necessary to thrive in a fast-changing digital environment.
Specialists who focus on a single interest or skill are at a disadvantage compared to generalists who are diverse and interesting.
The internet favors generalists because social media exposes creators to diverse audiences who are there to be entertained, not just to learn or buy.
Failure stacking, or pursuing goals and gaining experience even through failures, makes generalists irreplaceable by allowing them to acquire a diverse set of skills.
The most profitable niche for a creator is their unique combination of opinions, beliefs, knowledge, and life experience packaged into impactful content.
To earn a living as a generalist, one must become an entrepreneur and build a general audience around helping them achieve a big goal.
Creators should experiment with writing about all their interests and let the audience decide what resonates, framing everything through the lens of the big goal.
To make interests compelling to others, creators must illustrate the "why" and importance of ideas, as people weren't born with interests but persuaded into them.
Creators should establish authority in topics that resonate by creating digital assets like free products to avoid repeating themselves and give room to experiment with new ideas.
Generalists should build a portfolio of income sources by launching free and paid products around their best ideas every 3-6 months until they have a satisfying brand and business.

#multidisciplinary #gig-economy #creator-economy #social media #ideals #internet #jobs #advice #YouTube #video

·thedankoe.com·May 20, 2024

The Rise Of The Generalist (How To Thrive With Multiple Interests) - Dan Koe