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The Perpetual Vacation

Byjack

I’m very much enamored with the idea of changing the way I work in this new world of contracting, freelancing, and entrepreneurship.

In this new world, the certainty of your career and job is no longer there – leaving both an opportunity and a problem depending on how you look at it.

The certainty that was filled by your job needs to be filled in some other way – and I propose that way is via a strong system of habits, routines, and mindsets that lead to strong health (both mental and physical) leading to high energy, happiness, and peace.

I like to think about this as the perpetual retreat – my ideal vacation or workshop where vast amounts of work is done not at the expense of one’s happiness or physical well being.

What I would love this perpetual vacation to look like:

  1. Ideal working conditions (lots of light, spaces, nice temperature, comfy seats and pillows, people with common values)
  2. Constant personal growth (always learning and progressing in areas I care about)
  3. Strong support system (therapists, coaches)
  4. Physical training (swimming, running, martial arts, weight training)
  5. Natural sleep when possible (wake up when I feel like it, nap when I want to)

Next questions to figure out:

  1. How will I balance naps with working enough hours?
  2. How do I balance free methods with paid assistance?
  3. How will I find the kind of coworking/community you would find at a retreat?
  4. What do I bring more learning type energy out of meetings and working on projects that aren’t personal to me?

The initial thought I have about paid assistance is that if it enables me to earn more, then its a no brainer to get it. If it simply makes my experience more vacation-like, then it must fit into a budget.

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Learning Time: Rizz AI?

Byjack

Didn’t know what direction to take exactly but thought I’d watch some stuff.

Takeaways:

  1. When you find the people you want to work with be persistent about working with them
  2. If your competitor is not known, they don’t exist
  3. Presigned URLs vs base64 encoding images *want to research

Youtube Thumbnails

Byjack

I originally thought about using the thumbnails as a way to create worlds with drawing in almost taking a children’s book approach using it to create the sort of imagination, curiousity, and creativity I always aim to create in my artwork.

On second thought I feel I need to photos for my thumnails for the most part. Creative photos that have mystery and intrigue and magic and emotion. But photos not just drawings.

I was looking at children’s book covers for inspiration and I realized that when I see a beautiful children’s book cover, I expect the inside to be filled with those beautiful illustrations.

I want the cover to be a photo to something related to what is in the video so that there people get the world that they are looking for inside the “pages” of my video. The thumbnail is like a cover for a book.

Here are some inspiration:

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Workpost 83: Making a Gaming Video

Byjack

Need to shoot a gaming video today

  1. “I got a bit of a dilemma”
  2. “This is my Valorant jacket. I got it when I watched the world championship in LA a year ago. I love playing Valorant.”
  3. “But this is the 21 day youtuber challenge”
  4. “I’ve yet to figure out how to connect those two passions together. But that changes today”
  5. “Hi everyone, my name is Jack, and this in the Youtuber challenge, the challenge where I post a video everyday, working not for views, but for the love of making videos”
  6. “There are a bunch of things I’m super passionate about, but haven’t figured out how to connect to a Youtube video yet. And one of those things is gaming.”
  7. “But here’s my problem with gaming. I like playing alone, I don’t like talking while I’m gaming, but I do feel like there are certain things I like to share after the game is done.”
  8. “Here is the plan. I have fun gaming. In between, I’ll do a little bit of journaling, and afterwards, I’ll just edit a video that is fun for me”

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Financial Software

Byjack

I want to do some planning to work on a software that will help me keep track of my financial situation while also taking far less of my time.

What I want the financial software to help with:

  1. Verify credit card transactions
  2. Make me aware of money in vs money out
  3. Make me aware of potential savings strategies
  4. Ideally teach me some javascript
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Recap Video Ideas

Byjack

This is a recap of an exercise I did a few weeks ago. I was watching a ThinkMedia youtube video about how to succeed at youtube. He went through and exercise looking at 3 things in this order: passion, proficiency, and profit.

Basically, he said to make a list of all the things that you are passionate about, either things you like or things you hate, and things you do even if you weren’t getting paid to do it.

My list was:

  1. Making money
  2. Finding leverage
  3. Valorant
  4. Corporate life (hate)
  5. Coaching
  6. Challenges
  7. Superhuman abilities
  8. Graphic novels
  9. Children’s books, fantasy
  10. Health
  11. AI
  12. Surface level thinking (hate)

Then, he said to take that list of things and think about what we have at least 1 year of proficiency in, where we have been doing that thing semi-successfully. So I narrowed down my list to:

  1. Making money
  2. Valorant
  3. Feeling stuck in life
  4. Deeper thinking
  5. Coaching
  6. Health
  7. AI

Then, he said to narrow down that further into things that we could build an audience around, something people need or would want to buy. Here was my list:

  1. How to get started with a business
  2. How to aim
  3. How to get unstuck in life
  4. How to unlock your potential
  5. How to repair your body
  6. How to use AI to improve your life

I don’t know if I have any interest pursuing youtube in this way, but it was an interesting exercise to reflect on.

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Path to Fast Growth

Byjack

Some thoughts:

  1. You don’t always need or want to grow fast
  2. However, if you do, this is how

To summarize very quickly:

There are two things you can do to grow faster, get more customers, and make the customer more valuable.

To get more customers you need:

  • More traffic → Advertise more/better
  • Higher conversion % → Practice sales/Improve offer

To make them more valuable you need to:

  • Raise your prices → Grow gonads & decide
  • Buy more times (decrease churn) → Reach outs, exit interviews, prepayments, OB, Fast results, Events

Spend 80% of your time doing this.