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Okay. So at this point, I'm mostly going to cover the capture method and why that's important and more also why you can leverage it. Or I guess different ways in which you can leverage these capturing methods. And the, the overall title of this entire lesson would be procedural and generative data processing. Again,
00:31
Sounds very boring when you say it like that, but all it really means is that everything you do, whether online or offline, that's data. That's available for you to process and capture, right? It could be, it could be you making a piece of art or something, it could be you talking about something you care about. But at the end of the day, what's most valuable in this process is setting yourself up in a way where
00:59
If you do have something good that you have in the moment, you can actually step in and after that and then uplift that and make it from facing as opposed to just, you know, having it in private or just, you know, thought in your mind.
01:16
So personally, I use different tools. Some people use just the regular notepad on their phones, which works, it's serviceable. But for me, what's really helpful is the second brain approach, and data analysis and processing, because I can actually reference things for later. So if I need to say, look at a cluster of notes that have to deal with a specific topic, I can do that because
01:45
All of the notes are tagged under one singular tag.
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So like one second, I need to, I need to mute my welcoming notifications.
02:02
So the obsidian personally, I think it's one of the best ones out there. There's a lot of clever ways you can use it. So the main one I tend to use it is to basically fetch a bunch of links and have it in there natively so that if I need to cross reference something for later or just use it as a portal, basically to jump into.
02:31
the net for stuff that I need to get updates on. That's usually how I follow through with it. So if I were to take yourself for example, I know you're pretty active on Twitter. That's usually like the place I know you from. So if I need to find out more about you and what you do, the first thing I typically do is put blocking a link that points to your page so that I can easily jump back and forth to do that. So
03:01
I can just go on your page, copy and paste and link that points to your profile. Then go back to Obsidian, write a short bio about you, who we are, what you do. So basically kind of like a traditional phone book, except, you know, way more expensive the way I see it, because you can insert media in there and all that other stuff, you know? So, so that's really, uh, the basic elementary way I tend to use something like that.
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Do you have a CD installer? Yeah, I'm not gonna see it. A phone or your computer?
03:39
Yeah. So off the bat, I think it's worth pointing out that the way you have it, uh, synced with your data, that's really what's going to make or break this entire process because the way I have mine set up, it effectively taps into my central, if you want to call it that business email. So that everything that comes at me, business inquiries, meeting requests, podcast sessions, you know, all the things in between.
04:09
I can just process that from one single email. Um, so if you're going to build long-term on top of an obsidian database, um, be wary that the email it's attached to could potentially impact the friction that you're going to be dealing with so that if you need to retrieve information for later and it's attached to a different email, you know, that can get a converse on it or, you know, so
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So be careful with that. That's not the first thing I mentioned. And the second thing would be to get into the habit of making different vaults. That's what they call it in there. I call them just main notes really. So notes with different themes. So I have a main vault for say, mind contact. So another vault for something that pertains to a specific.
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topic, let's say 3D and so on and so forth. And I kind of build it up that way so that each time I get some new relevant information to add in the conversation, I can just put it in there and keep it pushing.
05:24
And so that's that so far. I'm going to also introduce you to Craft. Craft actually is a very good note taking tool that functions very similarly to how Obsidian functions, except to my knowledge anyway, it's all online. So it's in the cloud. And that's actually part of the reason why I'm personally more invested in building long-term.
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with the solution like Obsidian because for all intents and purposes, the format it's tapping into, it's just regular text format, you know? So it's really useful both in the sense of effective data saving costs because, you know, you can have, I don't remember correctly, like the novel's worth of text is like less than a couple hundred megabytes, which is kind of insane, you think about it.
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So, so you could basically write your art out and, and we really have anything low in terms of like, uh, space issues.
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And, um, it's also easier to retrieve in real time too, because the loading time is just not as much of a problem. So, so for me, whenever I'm doing these things, I think about it in terms of like, what does that look like at scale? Because for me, I already know that's kind of where I'm at it, you know, where I'm dealing with millions and millions of queries per week and stuff like that. So that's where, you know, this idea of maintaining
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good systems is paramount because A, it allows you to be in charge of your time. B, it lets you know what it is that needs to be done. And more importantly, it gives you a bird's eye view of like the stuff you've been got done so far so that you can better comprehend your progress really. That's, that's one of the powers that comes with using a second brain like tool such as Obsidian.
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And, um, craft is going to be the one. There you go. So craft. Real quick.
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Make the beat craft that I am.
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actually, hold on a second, I mean just don't bullet stick.
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That's all you think that you can expect. Yeah, I'm just going to send you a Docker and invite to the session I'm currently on so you can just log in automatically. Don't worry about it. Any questions so far? All good.
08:18
So in terms of the stuff you personally would see yourself using the second brain tool Swore, what use cases do you currently have in mind? Actually, so far are things like essentially building a library that works for me in terms of 3D art workflows, tools, things that I might not use in the process a lot, but still
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at any given point. Um, so if I just have a look, I've got like pages for different things like environment, art, props, that sort of thing, texturing, and then any notes which I don't use a lot. So let's see. In texturing, um, I didn't know what a MIP map was, for example, so I kind of defined that in a way which made sense to me and added like a load of links to
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and kind of bolster that. Just kind of for my own.
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reading I guess because googling the same thing over and over you might end up getting different results or something that just doesn't really explain it very well so if I get an explanation which makes sense then I don't have to keep doing that.
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That is, there's still a way to go about it. And it helps that everything that you've documented so far, basically it's easy to query and that's, that's the main power that comes with doing this approach, because even the people I know who are seasoned veteran in the industry, want to know how these folks tend to have their own personal things they can look back on, because even in the context of the
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3D workflow pipeline, some project files can be months, if not years old. So jumping back in there blind, it's going to take you some time to basically get your bearing and figure out like what does what. So that's another asset that comes with documenting as you go when you're doing a project so that you can go back and solve specific hurdles in your way so that you never really have to.
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Think about it too hard in terms of black value there, do this one time again, that's the sort of scenario.
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Personally, I, I, um, the most value I find for most of the, and mostly comes from, comes from the fact that it's basically, at least when you think about it, it's internal web page with them where everything links to one another and you can basically jump from there and there to make it public. You could feel like it, which is, um, another thing I think is pretty cool about it.
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basically use it in that fashion where it's like a prototype of like a working website before they actually make it live and that that traces back to the Format in which you allow to do stuff in there because it's all text-based Stop like that. I think it's really useful For you for you specifically though The lot of what you do is very much visual so of the bat I would
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consider having a secondary, a second brain system so that whatever that's not text, that's not convertible into text. You can basically have it all dumped in there so it pairs into the main obsidian system. Nathalie Boucher-Greene Nothing as of yet, which is kind of why I've stopped into it at the moment, A, because I've not had the time, and B, for all those visual things. Like I can...
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put all the images that I need in specific folders and stuff and have it go to an assets folder for example. But yeah, it just kind of gets a bit bulky then I guess.
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it. Yeah. So going back to the idea of like system management from earlier, what's really useful, at least in my mind, or when you're doing long term project and long term scale, it's the ability for you to take different pieces of software or
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Oddware even in some cases and basically account for them into your pipeline so that when the time comes for you to execute on a task, it's as easy as, okay, I know A, B and C and I can just jump in. I was supposed to try to figure out, you know, like what goals did I use for WhatsApp and specifically for example, a lot of what I do on a day to day basis is rotating back and forth between different social media apps so that, you know, TikTok.
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Instagram, technically Reddit and so on. And from there, if I see something that catches my interest, I'll bookmark it right then and there. Natively, we tend to browse the system that I use. So for me, I use Opera. That's the one that's like my main driver. And Opera is really useful for me because it offers me a pretty extensive internal database of bookmarks I can sync with my own email so that when the time comes for me to
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go back and execute later. I can do that very easily. But that's usually the main interest there. Additionally, I think of
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I think of the underlying intent behind the stuff I'm trying to do because not all methods of capture are made equal. Sometimes I'll capture something for the purpose of publishing it later, but other times it's just there as a reference. So I have different sections basically separated into different folders so that...
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Everything I know that needs to be useful for me later on to publish later for a project. I can just go right in there and know, okay, here's what I might consider publishing for today and so on and so forth. Makes sense so far.
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So that's basically, honestly, a level entry point in terms of what Obsidian is, what it's just full form, how to perhaps build on top of it if you feel like it. Personally, in terms of recommendation, Notion actually is a pretty useful second brain, secondary solution to Obsidian.
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So what's really useful about a per notion is that it basically gives you the ability to embed all sorts of rich media into a web page so that it could be a video, it could be audio, it could even be, if I remember correctly, an entire website basically. So it's like, there's a lot of ways to skin the cat, but ultimately notion would serve as like the visual front end.
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of the stuff you're working on. And then the data reached back and will basically live on an obsidian so that if you need to just go back and reference things. I do have Notion as well, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to try obsidian is because obviously Notion is, I think cloud-based, I guess, or just like basically not local.
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Um, and I liked the idea of having all the important shit that I need to be local. I call the information about, um, technical stuff that I don't really want to lose.
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Yep. So I just sent you a late invite to my practical session. So once you open that up, we'll cover the next chapter. But for all the different purposes, you know, chapter one is basically covered. If you have any questions or thoughts or comments before we move on, we can do that. I think so far everything makes a lot of sense. I don't really have any questions or clarifications or anything.
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Cool. So that'll make us want to stop to do then, which is the active data processing pipeline. So I'm about to basically show you in real time what it looks like when I'm processing data and that might give you some idea. And well, Blunky, that's so funny.
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That's quite an interesting thing, which is to go by the craft. Like a standard one before I even signed in.
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Oh, okay. So just give you like random nice, interesting. Cool. Good. Good to know. So yeah, going back to the way you can basically use these tools in terms of the active processing pipeline, you can take a bit of two ways. So my main way always has been to basically copy and paste and dump stuff in there so that...
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when it's time for me to do something for later, I can do that. So, actually, I have like something that's very suitable to demonstrate what I'm talking about. Do you remember that last Outcast episode I did with you? So, a lot of what I did systems-wise was ensuring that the bulk of that conversation was transcribed as text.
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So that if I need to go back into stuff with it, I can. And I'm not too really edge-fix-yul paragraph on there. But, boom.
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Maybe like a thousand or so could work. And I can get an idea. I'd rather... ..and folks drift. Oh. I'll get-
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Then we know when you see the text I copied in there. Yeah, that's, that's appeared.
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So everything that you see here, a lot of what you can do with that applies in other ways so that say if I needed to synthesize information that I know for a fact will be a constant reference for me, I can basically take a section of a video or an entire video as a matter of fact.
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into text and then put that in and format it accordingly so that I know what's going on and I know what specific parts I can look into. So the main way that I personally like to talk to this stuff, it's to use the language models because it just makes everything so easy for me. I don't need to think about it too hard.
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a bird's eye view of everything so I can better make sense of like huge chunks of stuff. So, I'm curious to you, have you ever used slot language models before?
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Okay. So I guess we could make that the side chapter for later. I'm not going to get into it too deep right now because that's it. So rabbit hole, but long story short on a day to day basis, I'm assuming anyway, you do a lot of copying and pasting of stuff somewhere. Yep.
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So that's where large language models come in. It's because a lot of what it's useful for, it's basically taking you from processing raw data into something that can be useful and makes sense later on so that when it's time for you to take on something specific you want to.
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then fall in through later for your own cartos as you can basically do that. That's, uh, that's like the main idea. But I know what I'm going to do with this current section of text. I showed you, I'm just going to have it basically point out, um, different sections of it and separate it into bullet points. So I'm going to do that right now by saying, Oh, now you need it's there.
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sections of this text.
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that probably You know little
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I indulge.
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and then I can just send a query in and just wait.
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So I can just read that and go back to the document. And then over here.
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So what I just copied and pasted, that's that what you just saw, this is that text currently processed into what it's supposed to look like for the end result.
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So, and now I'm effectively finding to attach different sections to their appropriate or relevant. If you want to call it that, paragraphs, I can basically insert the stuff on top, then copy and paste it underneath of it. So it shows me an actual reference point of like that part where it talks about that particular section or bullet point. So that's really where a lot of value.
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of Latin English models come send, as it seems you're out of time, and also it sometimes points out things that would not really stand out to you otherwise when you yourself reading the text on your own.
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I call it particular use case or problem and you never really added any idea why or how that's where a lot of which models come in as pretty neat and useful because you can ask it questions about that same chunk of text in real time so you can further process it into something that can be useful for you.
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I don't know, that's like that so far. Any questions? The model that it is that you use, I cannot remember.
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Yeah, so right now I'm on charging PC. There's different models. Some people argue that there are better models out there, but honestly they all do the same job. It's not that different. All it really is is that if you have something that can process the text and give you a comprehensive output, that's really where that stuff comes in.
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Most people use, oddly enough, most people use large language models for generative purposes so that they make up new text from scratch. I don't do that. That's what I'm doing, effectively, is taking stuff I've already written or stuff I've already said and further refining that as I go along, especially when I'm dealing with like really significant cogs of text that in context makes no sense or...
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have little parts to do with each other. So that's another thing that's just full about Locked-Witch Models, it's because you can take stuff that on the surface have no correlation and stitch it together and make it follow a logical thread of narratives so that both you and the person that's reading it does not get lost. That's really the intent there.
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I was just wanting to know which, which it was that you used so I can put it in my notes.
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Yeah. And it's actually part of my native system currently. So I use ChadGPC so often at this point that it's on, it's both on my PC and my phone because I'm always doing something that requires me to quickly sift through text. Oh, so that's the intent there. So having it attached to any mail of your choice actually gonna be
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very useful for you because the totality of those queries that you've done over time, it's all going to be saved in their database. So that's another way to think of it as like a second brain where if you're having an ongoing conversation with Chad GPT, you can actually go back to something specific that you were trying to problem solve and then it's all there for you to find.
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that I used, like an email that I tagged with it a while back to try and kind of test it out when it first sort of got big and then just never went back to it. So that's a good use case for me to use it for.
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I'm very curious why has it that, why has it been that you don't use that whole very much like what, what value do you see in it? I didn't really see as like presented in this specific way to kind of just process information because I think at the time it was like the hub hub was everything being generative.
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and the stance that I've particularly taken on generative stuff in general. Um, I just kind of didn't see past that at the time of when I started using it. I've kind of saw the only way that I could get a yukus out of it was maybe summarizing things for a cover letter for a job, for example. Um, but thinking about it in this case, I wouldn't have thought to do it all.
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Well, you're in luck because a lot of the stuff I've been able to do with it. It took me a lot of time to come up with lounge systems, but, um, what's really useful about gadget and PC and other such, rocking with Ronald holes, it's effectively a personal assistant. We can talk to about anything.
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I feel like if people perhaps that were opening up back then in 2021, if they were more so emphasizing that, it would have made more sense to the average person. Cause I don't know if you remember old school windows where they had Microsoft Word on there and they had clipping in it.
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I think she, this is why I'm talking to you is such a breeze because you come from the set from the same era I come from. So yeah, Clippy at the time was very limited, right? It could only point out things that he was pre-programmed to point out.
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is to basically integrate it into my own workflow so that at any given time, if I need to consult my assistant for a particular aspect of what it is I'm doing, I can take a break from the main task, open up a subtask and then explore that. And once I'm done with it, close it up, go back to my main task, insert the sub subtext in there and turn it so forth.
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So I actually recommend you open up a chat GBC page right now so I can give you some more practical examples of like what it's capable of and how you can use it in your research slash after in process or data. Now just need to remember that I've actually got an email with them.
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There we go. All slowed.
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Cool. So I'm going to have you do your own experiment to kind of get you started in there. And that's technically going to be chapter three. So for all intents and purposes, chapter two is basically wrapped up in terms of the front end and back end of, you know, the data that you have and why you're going to use it or how you're going to use it. That's basically what chapter two covered and was useful for so far.
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Um, so chapter three, that's going to be active processing in regards of, um, large volumes of, uh, information. And that's not just limited to text, but it's actually encompassing data in general. I'm really going to give you a primer in terms of how do you take whatever is out there on the internet or in your immediate vicinity, alternative to something that can be.
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And as few steps as possible turned into stuff you can use for your own benefit. That's really the end in there for chapter three.
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So if you go back to the current instance of the craft document I have up it for you. I'm going to have you write under specific section. Um, do on a title Daisy test go underneath for that.
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And then pick some excerpts from the paragraphs on top, copy them, go to chat GPC, mess around with them, and then copy the output under the daisy test section. I'll wait. You can literally ask it anything. I'm just trying to figure out like what your, what your natural, and then sees are when it comes to using these tools.
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You mean by, um, like just selecting, just select anything or, or have like an idea. Yeah.
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Yep. And anything like a random, whatever it stands out to you, just select it, then copy it, then go to child's EPC and start messing around with that. I'm not going to tell you what to prop. I'm just going to see what you have to do with it and then copy the output from there. So far I just used it to sum it up. And it's this bit and got
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this.
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Yeah. Okay. So you used it to basically summarize the input, um, output. That's, that's interesting. So there's, uh, there's a couple of ways that you can think of RGP as a system and the way you interface with it. So I'm actually going to write them down here so that you can
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What? You do later. I'll figure out. I.
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There you go. That'll work. So, the GPT and really any other language models, what you need to think about it as is systems that lives on top of other systems. So that if you want to specifically get insights in terms of something technical, you can do that. You can also use it to...
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getting more third person perspectives, likely biased, but still perspective nonetheless, because that training data that it's using, it's confirmed somewhere. So inherently, that's the disclaimer that I would want to point out of the bad, is that most people tend to use it as like a tool that is unbiased, that could not be further from the truth. If you press it about
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topics that were very relevant or controversial, it's going to immediately show its bias. So, and that's actually a broader implication in terms of the infrastructure, the way it's organized online and how it's processed in the future.
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by default of being the most popular search engine and subjecting its users to its biases, then large language models are going to function in that same way, unfortunately, for better or worse. So that's the thing that you have to keep in mind. I mean, it makes a lot of sense. So, yeah, so, yeah, so, yeah, so, so to basically summarize, it's useful to get data out of, it's useful to synthesize data.
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to restructure data, but never just take the data it gives you at face value. Always take the time to really evaluate how much of it is being influenced by what's already in there versus what your own influence is on the end result, you know?
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Especially in cases where you intend to publish stuff, because that's usually what I noticed as well, you know. A bunch of... personally, I don't call myself a journalist, that's not really the role I'm trying to take on. But I know a bunch of people who are in that field will basically use ChatGPC in that way, where they just go in there and they ask it to do stuff, and then publish it as if, you know, it's their thoughts and...
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For me, that's a terrible way to go about things because these are not my thoughts. These are not my feelings about the issue I'm discussing. So I would never do something like that. Instead, what I do is see more of a directorial role where I ask it, hey, give me some of your insights in terms of what's in that particular paragraph and then extract the value out of it. And then I go on to expand from there and add my own thoughts.
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then brands had repeat for basically everything until I have a functional full body of text that's ready to publish. That's usually my process. So, so for you, I think system, oops, which is what I'm going to call it. System prompts are going to be useful, mostly going to focus on technical prompts. So stuff that pertains to
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perhaps coding in some capacity because ChadGPT and a lot of their language models, they can write code. Also, you can use them to...
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basically figure out one aspect of your strategy for projects you're working on. It is unrefinement, so that if you need to section off I-management, you can actually do that for gpt as well. So system problem number one would be.
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to.
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write me a 10
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then shut... the evil pouch.
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BALLOON
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system, but number two would be...
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Right, we're gonna look at... High... Management... Petro... Based... Ehh!
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insert. So to give you a real example, take, um, take system prompt number two, up in paste that into the fat prompt of a GPT and then insert the selection of the text and then, and then basically have it, have it outline, uh,
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that into a script for a video and then put it in there and let's see what it says. So that's the test that I put in already.
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So as you can see, this is one example of many instances of how you could use a tool like this where if you need to publish this as say your own video on your page or social media accounts, that's one way to go about it. While you basically go and you have it synthesize the core message into a script of some part.
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And then it gives you an idea of like the steps needed to get to the end results, trying to tackle it up.
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Any questions so far?
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So that would wrap up chapter three effectively in terms of what you can do with these tools and how to go about it. Before I move on though, I'll mention that everything not just done, remember that all of this at the source of it, it was audio. So we took a pass on your conversation that we've had a while back.
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turn that into text, then turn that into different sorts of texts so that we can summarize it, we can bullet point it, we can title it, we can script it, basically the whole domain. That's where stuff like that really gets useful. It's neat. It's because you can actually apply that same concept for literally anything else. Um, someone, for example.
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does a YouTube video about a topic that you find to crack and you're not quite happy with the way they explain this thing, then you can actually take that excerpt that makes no sense to you, turn that into a text, uh, transcription, then build the PTAGPT or other sorts of goals and ask it to break it down. And that's actually going to be like the last system prompt that I'm going to throw your weight, so system prompt number.
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We, um, a lot of what chat GPT is really useful for is to simplify. So you can just say, simplify, insert.
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Next. And it's going to do that for you.
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You can actually get very specific about it, you can actually ask it simplify in the style of and it's going to actually do that, which is actually pretty neat. So I don't know if you have like someone in particular you're a fan of say, I don't know, like you're really, really like Beyonce for whatever reason and you want, we would want Beyonce herself to explain something to you. You could basically do that. It is literally going to do it.
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So, at the end of the day for me, all that matters is you know what sticks in your mind. If it sticks in there, then you're basically good enough to go and that feeds into language learning, believe it or not, because a lot of what people don't get about language learning, you know, side note is that you need to just absorb as much data as possible so that you can then...
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function and be able to speak, you know, that's a terrible way to go about it because there's no correlation for you. By default, a brain doesn't learn like that. The brain learns the best when it gets to automate away the process of memorizing something and then applying it in the real world context that is relevant to you, the person. So for me, I don't use that very often, but
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storytelling methods in terms of referencing ideas or concepts with real people or real places. That's something I do very often because it's a
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It relates to mind mapping, basically, where I take a core concept and then convert that into another concept based on what words it's related to. So mind mapping is the goal would be the word water, right? So the word water immediately, when you take off other words that relates to it. And since the word was, you mean.
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Like, yeah, water, sea, hydration.
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So see, enjoy shit, anything else?
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So that's the kind of thing that I definitely struggle with.
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because I'd have to sit and have it physically in front of me.
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I am.
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I'm a very bad example for that.
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That's okay. And there's actually, so the reason why I just did this is to show you in real time, how to organically explore your own limits, right? And then come up with ways to push past that. So, this is a real time ways for you. Now that you find yourself stuck and you can't come up with additional words that pertain to this map map, mind mapping method.
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I'm going to challenge you to come up with 10 other words that relate to this concept of water, and I'm not going to tell you how. You just have to do it based on life of covers so far.
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before I move on to chapter four. It's really like using the tools available.
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Wack would never so far basically, yep.
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And then once you have the end result, you can copy and paste that in the mind mapping section that I highlighted in the document.
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It should be in blue. Or I guess green in this case. With this bit, you mean?
46:43
Yeah, the one that's, uh, see, there I go. Could you, could you explain the process that you engaged in to problem solve this? Uh, I just asked you just now. This.
47:05
So you prompted Chad's EPC, the lost language model tool, to give you some ideas of words that relate to the main word that was at the core of the mind mapping method.
47:23
Can you think of other ways you can apply similar methods that applies to other disciplines? Such as 3D, for example, could you engage in a similar process and give me an example of like the output in that same document and copy and paste it? Like, oh, given in.
47:47
Just choose a word out random that pertains to 3D specifically, and then do that same process from before. So I asked it to simplify mapping in its usage and optimization in games and got that once, and then because it was a bit too short, I added on explain how it's achieved.
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and cut this response.
48:26
Okay. So this was me getting you to engage in real time album solving and not just telling you how to do the thing. So, so actually you now know how to use Chad CPC at the basic level to do stuff like this later on for either your research thought or proctoring the information you're trying to get at and so on and so forth.
48:55
So that operably concludes chapter three. And we'll jump into that before, unless you have any questions. No questions so far.
49:10
Okay, so chapter four will deal with the explorer, exploring your own limitation. And that's not to put you on the spot, but that's something I see that comes back a lot with you. You tend to...
49:25
For whatever reason, whenever I bring up something to you or I present an idea that perhaps might be challenging, you default to, I'm not the best person to do insert whatever that's at hand. Even the podcast, initially, when I first got, wanted to have you on, you basically said to me that you don't know how you would be a good guest because you don't have much to talk about, you don't see how good you would be, you know?
49:55
And you can sort of see how since we did do a podcast, how that statement is basically incorrect, right? You actually not only talk about a lot of things, but you actually, there's this very lesson we're working on, comes from something that you've done, you know? So what are your thoughts about that in terms of your relationship with limitation and your views?
50:25
the time when I was in high school and as soon as I couldn't really grasp something, I just thought, oh, that's just not something I can do, I guess. And one of my most common catchphrases did end up being, I can't do it. I don't know.
50:50
I think somebody is trying to deliver something at my door. I will be two seconds. Like, well for me, it's not. It's the wrong house. I'm back.
51:04
So you basically mentioned that when you think back of your childhood and your experience at school, when you were met with a challenge, you would basically tell yourself that you can't do it. Yeah, which is somewhat ironic given I managed to get through school pretty easily. It was I guess more towards the end. So like...
51:31
15, 16 to 17, 18, kind of the level of stuff there just kind of freaked me out a little bit. I think that's when I started to deteriorate as well because the expectation for me was to just kind of get on with the work because I could do it. As soon as I started to struggle, nobody knew what to do. So I just kind of left my own devices.
52:01
So, good things that I think it's worth mentioning here. So this is more psychological and mental than it really is typical. When you think about stuff that holds you back, I'd argue that at the core of it, it's really a self-imposed limitation because your perspective on the thing directly impacts how easily you end up doing the thing.
52:32
So, in this case of learning your concepts that perhaps might be difficult to challenging, your default tends to be I'm not the best person for that or I don't know how to do it, therefore I'll quit. Try and think about what you're doing when you catch yourself doing that, whether it's you know, just you're thinking about it or just you're thinking it out loud, but regardless, get into the habit of
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absolutely challenging yourself to say the opposite statement because to go back to the idea of systems, right?
53:17
your system is only as strong as the conviction behind it. If one aspect of your system is that that great, then basically everything else in the system falls apart because somewhere in there, there's a blockage. If you operate on a
53:42
I can, my state or it's possible my state as opposed to I don't know my state or I can't do that yet my state. That's really going to be awful for you.
53:58
Because that is one of the things that I definitely struggle with is if I don't have an answer to something, or if I don't know how to get an answer to something as well, it's just like the wall immediately goes up. I'm like, I just, I don't know. So therefore that's the cutoff point.
54:24
Yeah. So that leads into the second section of that work chapter, which is the date of play in Curiosity. It's your turn, Ool.
54:38
Put your curiosity on a 0% to 100% spectral root. How curious would you say you are as a person?
54:51
I guess it depends on the subjects.
54:57
Because my curiosity hinges on interest. If I'm not interested in something, I 100% don't care. Interest.
55:11
It's an interest-based reality.
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So we're talking about things like video games or 3D art, for example, the two big themes for me. Then
55:31
I'd say probably like above 80. There's, I mean, some parts of it are completely, you know, uninteresting, but not everything's a hundred percent interesting today.
55:49
Okay. So for the sake of the question that I posed to you earlier, I think posing it as 50% would make more sense because at being interest-based, it essentially means that if you met with something that you have no interest in or you don't see the utility rather than there, it's going to drop to zero. So what was 80% basically drops effectively to 30%.
56:19
So that's where practically your curiosity level is from a spectral perspective, but that puts you on a 30% basis because it's highly dependent on your need to explore something. And I'm going to give you tools that you can use on a day-to-day basis that gets you out of that 30% and gets you to at the very least a 70%.
56:49
Exploring your own limitation comes from. So question to you at this point, how, when you think about your regular day-to-day usage of the internet and platforms in general, uh, what platforms would you say you currently use? Actively that is, you know, so you know, you log on on a day-to-day basis, you do things, you know, like what does that look like?
57:16
ones that I tend to gravitate towards on date debits in particular Instagram and Twitter. Twitter because it relates to what I want to do in terms of a career and Instagram because it gives me a brick from seeing some of the more monotonous stuff on Twitter so like at least I get to see
57:46
dot videos, anything that's kind of comedy as well.
57:54
And I don't know, do you count YouTube as social media in that aspect?
58:02
Oh, I said platform, not social platforms. So yeah, that would count. That is.
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I guess it's either relating to if I'm doing some project work or purely entertainment.
58:23
That's about it. That's it. Yeah, and then I just have like messaging apps open for somebody needs me.
58:35
Okay. So, so your usage basically falls into two categories. It's entertainment usage or Azure use and educational usage or active use. So, Azure use.
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education or active use. So that falls back into what we talked about in chapter one earlier, where we talked about this idea of not just the platforms that you're going to be using to capture the information and process it, but what sort of information that comes in at you on a day to day basis so that
59:27
When it's time for you to go from Azure use to active use, you can actually sort through that data easier because not all data is made equal. Not everything is going to require your attention and full disclosure. That's something that I'm still learning to get better at, but the context, if you look back onto the extensive publication output out over 14 months, you can clearly see a pattern here.
59:54
And I'm going to send that to you actually right now by referencing my lending page, which should be, if you go on my Twitter account, it should take you to what's called my medium page on my bio. Click on there, see if you can find it. So I've got your medium page.
01:00:19
So on there it should show you every podcast, flash article, published in 2023. It should be the pen one. Yeah, I think that is it.
01:00:36
So click on that and yeah, click on that and I'll scroll through and see, see how extensive that is in terms of what I've captured so far. Well, it's a lot right? Every week call.
01:00:57
Yeah, more or less. And that's actually, I'm actually glad you bring this up because if you were to gauge in terms of, you know, amendment wise, you know,
01:01:07
How long did you think it took me to do this in terms of did you think I said all of them once a week, twice a week, once a month, and so on and so forth? Now what's your idea there? Actually wouldn't have a clue in the slightest.
01:01:25
Just take a guess. Just take a guess. Based on what you're reading in front of you, what does it look like? A lot of time investment?
01:01:38
Yes. Well, it is, it is. To put it more concretely though, though, most people operate from this need of doing something consistently and doing it once a week, once a day, whatever works for them. And I'm not saying it's the wrong way to go about it. I'm saying that in the creative industries, specifically, systems like that
01:02:07
don't work because you can't, creativity is not something you just turn on like art, you know, you don't, you don't get in there and you start to do stuff because you want to do it. Sometimes ideas come to you, so other times that's so much. So what I've effectively figured out how to do is to engage in what I would coin as turning organic interactions into inspiration, right?
01:02:37
So everything that's being seen on that article, the one that says we scrolled podcasts and articles released in 2020, it serves two roles. It's both a portfolio, a resume of some kind that shows the stuff I've discussed up to that point. And number two, it also serves as a database for me to go back to for things that I feel it'd be useful for me later on to engage in that same data processing pipeline.
01:03:07
we've basically covered so far. So everything is solved here. At any given point, if I see like it, I could go back, turn that into something else and present it into it's on that, that could be your school friend. And that was the point of me doing this.
01:03:26
So compared to someone starting from zero, you can see how this gives you a huge headstart, right? Because I'm not, the pressure here is not to take a new idea every single day or every single week, you didn't process that from scratch. It's to take stuff I already have, stuff I already taught about, stuff I personally think is interesting. And then
01:03:54
I can go back later and convert that into the new format that I desire. That's really what the intent here is. And that's how you can apply similar second brain tools in that same matter. So what you see here, although it's public for all intents and purposes, the same effect can be replicated using Obsidian or NoSyn.
01:04:20
But to be honest, as far as you can tell, for someone like you specifically, I would strongly urge you to think about how to whatever it is that you're doing, whatever that you're following on an interest basis, make sure that you find a way to present that into the public. And more importantly, in a format that it's easy to reference for later so that when new people discover you, they can...
01:04:46
be funneled through that same stuff you've done, whether it was a month ago, a year ago and so on and so forth. As a matter of fact, all this page that you're currently looking at, if you go on bing.com, go on bing.com right now.
01:05:06
So I want you to type what is Wispel in there, see what it says to you.
01:05:18
come up with the search results for your substack medium, Reddit, and like several different links from that as well.
01:05:33
So there should be an option that says co-pilot. So go on there and ask it. See what it comes up with.
01:05:49
We're in British Senesh. Okay.
01:05:59
you read it out? Sarah- It says, Wispel is a fascinating intersection where arts, culture and technology converge. Launched in February 2023, it's distributed over 50 articles and more than a hundred hours of podcasts. This platform delves into topics that explore the dynamic interplay between creativity, critical thinking and the ever-evolving world of arts and tech. Whether you're curious about social media strategies, AI in the classroom or music vibes.
01:06:27
WISPL offers insights that ignite curiosity and broaden perspectives. And the name itself suggests a blend of wisdom and innovation. In quotes, think, solve, stay healthy and become a WIS. By embracing these principles, readers and listeners can navigate the complexities of our world with clarity and insight. So if you're curious about the fascinating crossroads of creativity and technology, WISPL is your go-to source. And then give you some links as to
01:06:56
where you can find some most of.
01:07:02
So none of what you just read, I wrote. Not about me anyway. So I don't have a website. I don't have a, besides my sub stack in my media, I don't have a landing page of any kind that tells search engines to say this, you know? And the reason why it's able to do that, it's because I've made basically the totality of the stuff I've been working on public so that as I went along, I would...
01:07:30
hostility updates stuff and make it very explicit, not only who it's about, what it's talking about and where I talk about it. You know, and that's why it's able to pick up on that. Specifically medium, TopTak, it picks up on search engines, but to be honest, I'd say the 80% of the traffic I'm getting from a search engine standpoint, it all comes from that medium. And that same article I showed you earlier that shows...
01:07:57
the TOTALIDOD podcast and article released in 2023. That's why it's able to say that.
01:08:05
So do you see any other ways you could apply that same structure and information about yourself for your ultimate? In terms of...
01:08:21
You know, like hiring and things like that. What you do is agree. Having something which is identifiable for what kind of, say, 3D art services I provide.
01:08:39
That's fun. You can take off his helmet.
01:08:46
I think it's like, I guess, um, when it provides links, links to portfolio and stuff.
01:08:57
So next to portfolio. So this is where consolidating that chapter into what it's truly about, right? This idea of understanding your understanding and exploring your own limitation. So for me, as you can probably tell, I'm not just on Twitter, not just on Instagram. I'm not just on this board.
01:09:26
It's available for me to be start strong. Um, I have something there. That's, that's the point of the, whatever we've covered so far, you know, it's this idea that you don't have to necessarily be active all at once. What's necessary though, is that if someone is looking for stuff about you, then whatever platform that they happen to have, which is, you know, YouTube, Instagram, Substack and so on and so forth, you know.
01:09:54
Stuff like that comes in really handy to organically point people to where they need to be. Does that make sense? So from a systems level, it actually it's a feedback loop based on the stuff you're already doing on the backend for your Obsidian, slash them for your...
01:10:19
in those time and then taking that, making it public, making it searchable so that when people want to find you, when people want to recommend you, it's as easy as a search for insert username here and you'll find all this time that needs to be found.
01:10:40
And it actually works out in your favor in the long term too, because the more extensive of digital footprint you have on the internet, the more likely you will have Google or really any other search engines, or Gallically integrate a summary about you and who knows, maybe even at some point you'll have a Wikipedia page written about you based on who you've done work with, which if that happens, that basically means effectively that
01:11:10
you have real estate, meaning that it doesn't matter who else has that name that you have online, when they search for it, your stuff will come up as a priority because everyone Wikipedia page about you basically supersedes anything else in terms of the information that it provides.
01:11:34
So that's really the intent there and the, what I'm hinting at, you know, going past your limitations, it's not just a matter of platforms. It's a matter of quite literally setting yourself up in the future so that when people, especially people who are not chronically online, like you and I are, think about it this way, right? Like business people, especially those that are dealing with, you know, million dollar to billion dollar companies, they're not on social media. Right.
01:12:05
So typically they do things one of the two ways, either via email directly, or they have like a quick glance at what it is that the person is doing or what they're not for. And then that perception is going to inform their decision later on in terms of whether or not they want to have you in their team, right?
01:12:28
Do you see the value in doing this? I mean, I can't like think of a way of how I can see the value. I can just kind of get it if you go on me.
01:12:42
So, so another aspect wanted to provide to end up though, turning on that organic interactions into an inspiration. It's this idea of research goals that are seeding directly into what you want people to find and value, but also the stuff that you personally have an interest in. So you've mentioned Instagram.
01:13:13
You mentioned Twitter, which they're all cool and useful. But as far as you can tell from your obsidian usage, getting into the habit of basically cataloging things and into a second vault where stuff you don't really know much about or you don't care to look into.
01:13:43
exploration limits you there. Just even if you don't have to or don't want to look into it right then and there, you can still go back and look into that stuff later on when it's relevant. Um, and actually it, it feeds further more into systems in general, because here's the where something or someone like me really benefits from what I'm doing because currently
01:14:12
For all it's in purposes, all of the stuff I'm doing, it's all consolidated under one singular moniker, all brand, which is it always built, right? So that's number one. And number two, when it comes to my activity across platforms, doesn't matter if it's Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and so on, it reflects the stuff I actively want to discuss and the stuff I've looked into in the past
01:14:41
algorithmically, you can actually go along and basically that let the platform to do the hard work for you and serve you things that you actually have an interest in. So you're effectively leveraging the passive nature of being a consumer on the internet in your favor where instead of just scroll scroll scroll, watch watch watch, you're actually taking ideas in real time from different places. You know?
01:15:12
So that's where the system of organic exploration and interaction really is going to.
01:15:24
I'm in handy for you. Well, cause it sounds like up to that point anyway, social media for the most part has been mostly a landing point for you to talk to people about so much, perhaps engaging or processing. Yeah, pretty much. She used it so far to kind of interact with people and to kind of try and and get a job, I guess.
01:15:52
Yeah. So, so that's the, that's the core of what we're trying to get at. So instead of having to you constantly doing the work of networking and having people, perhaps, you know, becoming friends with you to then give you a job, think of it as like, you're producing stuff at scale about you or about your interests that organically needs people to discovering you to that.
01:16:21
I think they can see that you are someone that is relevant to their field. Yeah. They can just go ahead and hit you up on their own, you know.
01:16:32
And in your case, you actually have that going for you already as is, but we're not going to cover that until later in the chapters. But for now, chapter four is basically all covered, save for the last instance of what this entails, which is the state of play and curiosity. So as we've talked about earlier, your curiosity, it's a, it's interest-based, right? Which is not a bad thing inherently. But
01:17:01
Keep in mind that what's going to make you competitive at the end of the day, it's what you know and more importantly, how effective you are choosing it. So if you are to be matched against someone who knows twice as much as you, but they don't practice as much, then you're going to have the advantage there because you're someone
01:17:31
You don't just take an information and then it's just sitting there somewhere. You're actually experimenting with it. You're coming up with ideas from scratch with that and so on. Whereas the other scenario where you could know twice as much, practice twice as much as someone else, and yet they can still get one over you because of the fact that.
01:18:00
they figured out a way to take in less as much as you are. So effectively they're functioning at four times the pace that you are, you know? So that's really the nature of the game, for better or for worse. People who, I'd argue from my perspective, having done that work, you know, because I am a consultant, I've been doing it for a while now. Across the board, people who are
01:18:29
very active in their industries. These are people who they don't just function as like a social media profile where they operate on the internet and then they just talk. These are people who they're in this collective cycle of creation, insulted and publication.
01:18:57
So that's the core pillar of what being a creator, at least in the modern age, entails is to read something, some stuff that pertains to the things you want to create, publish it, rinse and repeat.
01:19:14
And that's the part that if you're not writing that down, I would actually urge you to do so because that's really the core lesson here. It's like, if at any point, any of these killers are not taking care of in this cycle, then your career effectively is not going to go anywhere.
01:19:40
So that's chapter four, basically. So that leads into the second to last chapter, which is chapter five. So that deals specifically with taking everything that you've done so far in terms of processing information, structuring it, organizing it, and then deploying it, but deploying it at scale.
01:20:09
people are aware of you, they know what you're doing, they know where to find you, that sort of stuff. And it's gonna come down to basically utilizing the tools that are available today at your disposal to make that process as easy as possible for you. Because a lot of people unfortunately get caught up in the process of variation and the process of construction. But when it comes to publication, you know, they have
01:20:37
not much to sell for it because they spend so much time, say, fucking shit on Twitter, you know, like again, not hating on it. It has some utility, but you can kind of see how it can be easy to spend plus hours a day on Twitter and when all is said and done, it doesn't really advance your career where you want it to, right?
01:21:03
So that's really the aspect we got to hone in on. It's in this fifth chapter, so publication specifically. So I'm going to go through your account on Twitter and I'm going to point out a few things that you can tell me whether or not it's accurate description and we can go from there. So off the bat, Daisy,
01:21:33
Open for work. That's what your name tag says. And then junior 3D environment artist looking for freelance full time art. And then your art station. And then you have like a card that likes to unassuming Other pages that you're actively use which should ship its Twitter and on. Okay, cool.
01:22:02
Having your page inserted this way, effectively leads you into getting people who are actively looking to hire to find you to offer your work in this current state. I actually wouldn't know whether to say it does. The only thing that I've kind of taken as advice is to just put my portfolio wherever the hell people would be able to see it so they know.
01:22:31
Just make it as easy as possible essentially for somebody to click on that. So I'll just put it literally everywhere. So nobody has an excuse to go, Oh, look, I haven't tried Nick. Cause it's right in front of you first.
01:22:47
So Artstation, Twitter, even when I look at it, it's just easy. So that's easy. When I google that, it shows a link.
01:23:04
it. And it's also just those Facebook profiles. Let's see. That's a different one. Mine's pretty locked down.
01:23:17
Yeah. So that's your, that's your docs name. So that's the name that you professionally go by. That's publicly available for people to attend to. So, so that's going to be dad and that's going to be a Zool. Um, B and D. So.
01:23:39
So a sketch map goes up, art station shows up, add details goes up as well. It'll be to do with the Animal Crossing character I bet as well.
01:23:54
And it shows the Etsy shop as well too. Sure. What in the reason? Yeah. Likely something to do with Animal Crossing. If so.
01:24:06
So these are things, if I didn't know who this was, I would assume this was a different person, right? And that's what I'm getting at in terms of the current state of your Twitter profile. And really, your profiles in general, nothing about them actively signal to the outside world that these are all the same people doing the exact same thing, right?
01:24:35
It's going to take some time to get that fully consolidated. And to be honest, this organic process is the best way to know about it. So that as you go along, it's easier for you and for other people to put that on what it is doing. But at this point, even when I scroll on your home sheet on Twitter, a lot of it is basically based around.
01:25:03
interaction, it's entering these anonymous messages. I see some retweets here and there, some memes, some hiring announcements, you know, these are all, these are all well and good, but unfortunately, because of the fact that social media functions on an algorithm basis, what is going to cause unfortunately is that the visibility that you're trying to get, it's not just gonna, it's not gonna really be there.
01:25:33
So, so, and, and what do people want to admit it or not? People typically tend to see stuff, especially on the platform at Twitter, by seeing it show up on their for you page, like that, you know, that's so that's the nature of the beast of rarely do people engage in this active process of thinking about what they're consuming, where it's coming from, and more importantly, how to find more of it. They just come across it on their profiles and then they move on.
01:26:03
And then also let's acknowledge the fact that on a hour to hour basis, there's millions of tweets coming in by itself. So don't think, don't just think about what it is you're doing in terms of being discoverable, but account for that in the context of by the time that you do post, there's going to be quite literally a million other tweets that will show up that will basically push you all the way down so that
01:26:33
you can't be seen as easily, but not all hope is lost though, because it's actually fairly easy to quote unquote manage that visibility. It's just a matter of doing it in a way that makes sense. So for me, the way I think of Twitter, right? Twitter is a conversational platform. It's a platform that it allows you to
01:27:03
really see the big picture of what's currently going on. And when it's time for you to step in and search yourself in that conversation, people can then have a visibility of you. And there's a few main ways to get engaged in this. So first is by essentially creating stuff that is relevant to the conversation at hand. So...
01:27:30
And for the example of what I'm about to cover here, I'm about to send you a tweet I actually put out myself. It's been a minute, but it definitely feeds into the idea here I'm trying to cover. So I think it was a while back, there was two news that came out about Boeing, like the airplane.
01:28:03
So if you check on your Twitter messages, I just sent you a link to the post itself. That I mean about that.
01:28:17
So what stands out to you about that after bet? Like, what do you notice?
01:28:30
AHHHHH
01:28:34
and then it's got a fair amount of interaction. And then you've given like context in relation to the video that you posted and the link to the original video as well.
01:28:50
So it shows, at least in my end, that it has nearly 400 retweets, well, nearly 3,000 likes and 130,000 views, which is none of these matter in the grid scheme of things. To be very clear, that should not be the emphasis here, but these are guiding points that let's you know, okay, this is the stuff at low-term attributes to the...
01:29:20
message I'm trying to put out there and make myself be more effectively discovered, you know.
01:29:26
Still for me, as someone who honestly I don't care to be visible online, that's not really what I'm doing, what I'm doing. You can sort of see how at scale that stuff can be useful because if each of my posts were reaching nearly 3,000 likes, that effectively means that over the course of 30 posts, I have... That's like 3,000 times 10,000. Oh, no, not 3,000 times 10,000.
01:29:55
That's a 3000 times 30. So that's a
01:30:04
So, like, there you go. So, 3,000 times 30, that's essentially 90,000 people that see your stuff.
01:30:18
So if you have that same post going up, and it's the same instance and being seen, the data is the same frequency every time, just for the sake of like example, that's the kind of numbers you're dealing with. So the likelihood of you coming across someone's profile who A, is looking to hire, or B, is looking to effectively give you some opportunity to do something.
01:30:47
gets that much higher because you've made it possible for them to automatically come across your stuff because of the nature of social media now 90% of people are just passive.
01:31:00
And as a matter of fact, a fun, I guess you could say any topic of discussion that people don't think about, but when you look at the link itself that I have on top of the video, it actually shows the amount of people who clicked on it. So if you were to take a guess as to how many of these, you know, numbers, you know,
01:31:30
People click on analytics. Like, what's your best guess? I don't know. In the hundreds, maybe? If those that-
01:31:43
You're very close actually. So the, uh,
01:31:48
the amount of people who linked on that link specifically, it's 130. So out of the 15,000 people who actively interacted, who are engaged with this particular post, 130 of them linked on that link. So you can sort of see how, even if it's only 130, that's still 130 real people who took the time to visit a different platform.
01:32:18
to then follow someone else or see more of their stuff, and so on and so forth, to see that, right?
01:32:25
So that's a similar method that can be very useful for you long term in terms of designing your stuff in such a way where when people need to discover you or engage with you, especially outside of the platform that you're on, that's going to be easy for them to do so in less than, you know, one step, you know.
01:32:46
And that actually leads into...
01:32:51
the concept of the data that you publish and why that's important. So when you think of social media in general and the work that you do online, what's the immediate problem that you see in having such a system?
01:33:12
Well, it's just, I guess not many people are actually going to be able to see, say for example, my portfolio link that much and thus like the visibility of that hinders me getting a job in the field that I want.
01:33:36
Yeah, that's, that's one, but the domain one I'm trying to get at least at if your account was to get deleted tomorrow, how badly would you say that would have So yeah, I've got like, the only other way to contact people would be to actively, like for example, email, just cold email a bunch of companies. Edit.
01:34:04
So that's where the idea of aligning your data and aligning your content comes from. Because now you're not just publishing stuff, you're not just doing it in hopes of being seen, you're doing it in such a way where even if you were to lose something that's essential in communications, you'd still have a tangible way to retrace your steps and figure out.
01:34:31
who's out to talk to, or how to reach out to the data. And that feeds into what we talked about three chapters back where we discussed this idea of structuring your vaults in such a way where different vaults serve different purposes. Some vaults are for technical things, other vaults are for on-tack information. So for me, for context, I have a vault that has, at this time, a little under 100,000
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names and addresses and stuff like that.
01:35:05
So it's a lot, but that's the point I'm trying to get at. And if I were to lose everything, and I quite literally mean everything, it wouldn't matter all that much because, number one, these people actually know me in some way, shape or form, because I've made sure to keep that interaction more at surface level. And number two, if I actually need to send in a request or something, I can do that as easily as,
01:35:35
send email or at fall call, you know. So that's really the idea of publication that we've covered so far, you know, that's actually an unspoken role that plays into it. Most people publish stuff online expecting people to find them, which, you know, it's not a wrong way to go about it, but
01:36:01
Really think about it from the standpoint of how you can leverage what you already published so that you can stick your contact with someone that may or may not later on open up a door for you. You know? Because, because I cannot stress this enough, just because someone interacts with you on your post doesn't mean that they actually care to get to know you. So, so, so you're gonna have to make that effort here.
01:36:31
Yeah. Makes sense.
01:36:36
Any questions? Yeah, still none that I can think of.
01:36:45
So that leads into the sixth and final chapter, which is consolidating everything and working on a standing out, you know, what does that look like, you know, at scale? So, so going from, I have an idea, I've captured it, it's on
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It talks about properly to then I'm ready to publish. I know what I want to publish about, and I know how to reach out to people to make it happen. Um, you know, like it's just the in-betweens of getting that figured out. So that there's as little blockage or no blockage at all in the process of just. You just, it's as easy as okay, I just go publish, rinse, repeat, right? It's the same thing that I done actually with the podcast I had you on last time, right?
01:37:42
If you were to take a guess in terms of how long that took me, how much would you say it took? You know, go from recording it, editing it to then publishing.
01:37:54
wouldn't have a clue.
01:38:01
It took about an hour. It's give or take.
01:38:07
So that's a few hours just to record. Well, technically it took me even longer than that because at first you did not really want to get on because you didn't see the value or need for it. So I needed to effectively sell you on that premise, first of all. And then once that was good to go, then I answered that by the time I did get you ready to get on, I can...
01:38:36
take that conversation as easy as possible and just jump from taking the audio that I needed to then edit that and publish it. So it took a lot like 15 hours, but the fact of the matter is that that pipeline is actually so efficient at this point that it takes as little as a single day, 24 hours to publish one thing. You know?
01:39:02
So you can see how that's incredibly efficient and useful to have a system like that. Because all I really have to do at that point is to go back find something I think is worth publishing, publish it, keep it pushing, go on and so forth. So for you, the number one thing I can think of that's really gonna benefit for you in terms of publishing, it's gonna be tough about you.
01:39:32
oddly enough. And what I say about you, to be clear, I'm not saying, you know, videos of yourself or selfies of yourself. That's not the point here. It's just, it's just actually a way to showcase to the world that you exist, that you are a person, but that this is the thing you're doing so that when people find your stuff, they can easily interact with it and showcase it to other people. That's so that they know that
01:39:58
future reference, that's your thing, that's what you're known for.
01:40:04
So for me, part of why I chose to go this approach of first documenting things into an audio format and then text format is specifically to address the fact that I'm not one of those people. Personally, I don't have the bandwidth, I don't have the patience, truth be told, to be a visible person online. So the next best thing has been for me to effectively take...
01:40:33
old conversations or old topics I've discussed and consolidating that into what you've seen earlier from my medium page, my sub stack page, so people can Google about me on search engines or in this case YouTube videos just kind of like the world out there, you know.
01:40:52
So for you, what's really gonna be the most useful is to take the build in public approach where as you go along, you can effectively think about the stuff that resonates with the broader audience of like people who are enthusiasts of 3D or tech in general, for the purpose of animation, gaming and so on.
01:41:21
potentially might have something for you that falls into your skill set that you can then basically take something you've done already in public, know that as evidence of, hey, this is me, this is what I've done, you know, check me out. And that's it. You shut your
01:41:40
So because of the fact that the core of your profile and your presence really lives on Twitter, what that means is you're going to have to think about a way for you to actionably take the stuff about you on there and bring that up to people so that they don't just know that you exist online, they actually know that this is what it could be useful to them for. So
01:42:09
Do you recall a while back when I sent you this post of this person who came up with a 2.5d pipeline, right? For their animation. So that's what I mean. So this person, despite me mentioning it, even if I don't know their usernames, I know that at some point we talk about that in our messages so that I can just go back, find that post, quote, tweet that and we're good to go. Right?
01:42:39
So for you leveraging Twitter in that capacity, your best asset is gonna be threads, right? It's you're gonna need to learn how to organize your threads in such a way where it's easy to find, it's easy to search, and more importantly, it's easy to just add stuff as you go so that when people do find stuff about you, they can...
01:43:06
be reminded that, oh, okay, that vein thread is about this, and so on and so forth. That's the idea here. So each product consolidates this idea of building in public.
01:43:23
Any questions? I guess it's like, all the questions I have would be like essentially how to go about all this kind of stuff.
01:43:36
like actionable things I could do.
01:43:41
That's pretty much it.
01:43:47
Okay. And that's actually a good question because it leads into a couple bullet points that falls into the. The, the disc or chapter that we're on. So at this point, The social media element for you cannot be ignored. It's just going to be the most important. Therefore, that's going to be what we leverage. So when you think of what gets you the most describability.
01:44:16
across the board, it's going to be videos. So leveraging that in such a capacity that people know what you are, what you do, that's going to be your next best thing. And an easy way for you to think about it and do that is to section off different videos for different purposes. So I come from a filmmaking background and technically photography as well. So hopefully some of these terms access to you. So.
01:44:46
There's this idea of leveraging B-roll where you essentially take a piece of footage that has little or no correlation to what's currently being said, but it's still something that you can show to people in the meantime so that people know, oh, okay, so this is what's going on. So that say, for example, if you were to make a post where you showcase to...
01:45:16
the public, hey, this is how I've done, insert this character here. Then it's going to be a video of you setting up a computer or something. So, so it's like just sitting there so that when it's time for you to reuse that, you can just reuse that as you see fit, but then the active process though, in terms of what I would call the core footage, that's the stuff that
01:45:46
You can do a three-in-capture of whatever you're working on, or you can even do a basic, you know, set up where you have your phone recording maybe 30 to a minute of what is it you're doing. And then you post that as is and it's like, oh, here's the easy end result, you know.
01:46:15
And there's different ways you can basically section that off. You know, there's different types of videos that serve a different purpose. Some videos are meant to be a challenge where it's like, okay, here's me doing a character in less than 10 minutes, but that's a challenge type video. Or it could be a video that could be more along the lines of, here's a little experiment thing within your tool for the first time, or a new software, you know, get used to it, like thought about it.
01:46:45
So not only it keeps you current in terms of your own capacity as a 3D audience, but also it gives the people from the outside looking in the opportunity to find you, especially if it's a tool that's relatively new so that people that are looking into it can find your post easier.
01:47:06
So these are a couple of ways you can think about it. But going back to how we talked about Wyrl, you know, like this idea of mind mapping, that's where stuff like that is actually going to be de-multi-effective and de-multi-etal for you because everything I'm doing so far effectively, it's some form of mind mapping. It's me taking a core idea that needs to be presented to someone or an audience and then I think about...
01:47:35
What are the ways I could take that same thing and present that in a different context so that for you, if it's 3D, is it going to be behind the scenes stuff? Is it going to be actively discussing how a character is made? Is it actually discussing how 3D correlates with VFX and so on and so forth? You can see how this mind mapping method works in real time. It might be voicing these ideas out loud, right?
01:48:05
So, so even if you get stuck in the process, you can still refer to the little hack I told you how to do earlier, where you kind of go back to charge GPT and ask it, okay, I'm stuck here. I don't know what ideas relates to this. What could you give me? You can go from there, you know? So it's a constant feedback loop.
01:48:32
just kind of taking everything in. Why do you adapt to talk? I still like trying to think of how to process all of this, um, just in my own head and be like what I can do.
01:48:56
as for myself in terms of like when you say that's relation of 3D to VFX and stuff like that, and just kind of what I'd be interested in.
01:49:10
presenting, I guess. I don't know. It's just kind of a lot to think about.
01:49:19
It is a lot to take. The idea here is not to take everything and then move on from that. Because even for me, everything that you've heard me discuss before, even though it's a lot for me to cover, this is all series of information that it took me months, if not years to process and integrate over time. So it very much functions on that system level where if something is not
01:49:48
immediately useful to you. Don't worry about it. That's not really the intent here. It's to organically explore things that move in the right direction. That's really the intent here. And what we've covered so far gives you a broad bird's eye view idea, a borderline academic breakdown of like, of the ease what's actually going on under the hood here, both for what I'm doing, but also for what you could be doing, you know.
01:50:20
And, um, this actually got to be the, the conclusion chapter where I basically kind of, I'll just homemade everything and I'd found actual actionable steps. So it's a go back to that draft document that we titled it from earlier. So that last section on the bottom that says creation, consumption and publication. So that's really going to be the part.
01:50:49
that you're going to hone in on the most because creation at the core of it is going to drive the engine of what you do with it for it. And I'm going to separate them into their own points so you can see maybe how to make that dealt. So for the creation process, it's going to be important for you to come up with a
01:51:15
a schedule of some kind where you effectively dedicate, ideally, hours of your time, but it's nothing but you creating stuff, you know? Because that's something that's actually gonna engage your core muscles and your core skills so that you don't lose that practice, you know?
01:51:38
So practice ideally two hours a day. So that's what's called deep. The idea here is that you dedicate a chalk of hours, because most people assume that good work looks like you working for six, 10 hours at something. It could not be further from the truth because you bring after that first, let's say two hours,
01:52:07
it loses steam very quickly and effectively any progress that you make at that point won't get you anywhere because you're not, you're no longer able to process what you're doing and take it in, you know? So, always remember that you're better off, you're better off practicing or putting interaction at scale two hours a day.
01:52:38
Um, then you are to do that same thing, 10 hours a day, but retaining basically zero of it, you know? So that's, okay. So that's number one. And the number two would be in the creation process, um, document. That's going to be really important. So document.
01:53:07
the process. So what does that mean in practice? Demo's to ignore the software or the pipeline that you're using so that it's just there for reference. It's also the plot where you can reference stuff from past few puts really
01:53:38
reference old work from yourself or from others we use in your period.
01:53:59
So, artformat, you document this in, that's not really what's important here. It's just matters that it's there for you to just go back later and easily organize that, sort through that so that it's time for you, when it's time for you to get into the publication, it's as easy as possible for you to do that. So, let's do that.
01:54:27
Another thing that's going to be useful for you is the metadata. So most, I assume, pictures or videos have metadata attached to them. So that's kind of like where stuff kind of comes in where you can dedicate, you know, a minute or two to basically process.
01:54:51
Uhhhhhh
01:54:54
Uh huh. What the thing is, and you can write that in. Oh.
01:55:01
write that in as a meta data so that it's easy to search for later. So some people do date formats, like they'll have stuff separated by weeks, some months, for me it's more by themes and topics so that whatever that pertains to a specific aspect of what I'm trying to do.
01:55:30
It's all labeled properly so I can then go back and find that. And that's usually how I do it. Or in my case, leveraging the tech and rate capability. Um, I'll go back.
01:55:44
in search keywords, you know, so leveraging the second beat.
01:55:54
of rules, like notion, anything. You can basically do, you might search there so that the totality of your database kind of flows off and you can then, then through the relevant stuff that comes up to you. So that's really what the creative processing emphasis is. It's to give yourself a way to take that view. I'm...
01:56:23
or you productively create something and then bring that in flexible way where you can then wrap and stuff later. Do you then publish anything, you know, that's usually how it goes.
01:56:38
The consulting part of it stays pretty simple. It's just think about.
01:56:47
What is the trend? And just to create.
01:56:57
That's it really, because it's not really simple right now. There's a whole thing going on. People are saying, this is me and this is my art. Right. This is literally one of these instances that would be perfectly to do that because all you have to do is just a picture of yourself, what you've done. We certainly, and you can even add some extra context in the replies afterwards in terms of people that are used to it more about it. That's usually what this is. But also, but also.
01:57:27
challenge yourself yooo
01:57:33
to engage with things that you don't need to deal with necessarily because it may drive
01:57:55
And as I discussed earlier, you know, what traffic comes, and likely a lot of people noticing you, because I'll give you one simple example. In the music industry, there's a whole subset of skills that are needed for stage design, right? That's basically the people that design, brain and stuff like that. That's the job that people get hired for, right? But...
01:58:22
I bet you if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't have no idea that in the circles of people that are into EDM music, there are people who's so gimmicked to basically post examples of animations paired up with a particular song and that's the stuff for the day, right? So when people interact and watch that stuff, they can basically say, hey, this person makes pretty dope animations for...
01:58:47
life sells, you know, like they should be the person that could hit up for stuff like that later on, you know what I mean? So that's where that stuff comes in for you in that consumption phase. For the publications phase, well, what's going to really come in part to you is the batching and the conversion aspect. So we'll do batching first. So batching just means
01:59:17
Just like I showed you earlier, when you look at the totality of the articles in the podcast I've published, that's on average in hours of stuff I can go back to. That's already batched for me that I can then reuse later or republish. So, so effectively
01:59:40
doesn't live just on circle. Yeah. I mean, it's not going to be at full for you to come through to repost something that you already posted because that's the thing, right? You can repost old stuff. You don't have to put your stuff all the time. You can post new stuff as well. But the idea here is to always have a set amount of stuff ready to go that you can then just pick from and use and just post from there. You know? So,
02:00:09
As far as that's concerned though, in terms of the use cases to take what's already there and convert it, a very simple solution that I found that in a BB, no matter what you do, is using text to speech. And the beauty about it is that there's so many tools nowadays that are so advanced, even chat GPC needs. We...
02:00:38
gives you the option to read out loud stuff. So you could basically take something, add that, be read out loud for you, record that section of the audio and publish that as is, you know, in context of what it is you want to publish. And there you go. You know, that's the stuff right there. But you can also use your own voice or your own, I guess,
02:01:07
behind the scenes, in terms of what you've done, and present that as like the front facing aspect. Because most people are frankly terrible at talking about their stuff, and that's normal. You think about it as like a muscle. Most people train the creative muscle and nothing else. And that's where people can get limited because when all you do is
02:01:35
praying how to make stuff, then yeah, it makes the best sense that when it comes to telling people about it, you have no idea what to do because you're expecting people to just know intuitively what is that you're doing or why you did it. And that's why you have to come in to basically step in and remind people that, hey, this is why I've done this stuff. This is how I've made it. And this is what I'm hoping to achieve with it. You know? So...
02:02:06
That's the why that you're trying to that has the best of core aspect of what the publication is supposed to be for. So publishing just means why I've done this thing. I've done this thing.
02:02:29
All that was the thing is.
02:02:34
So at this point, it doesn't matter if it's about VD, about something more fundamental, something that's completely off the cuff, you know, like it's, they're still gonna be able to take whatever is in there, insert that in contact with what it is you want to do, and then post it as to let people know, hey, this is what I'm doing. You know? Any questions? Not so far.
02:03:04
Yeah.
02:03:07
So yeah, that's basically everything. Like up to bottom, going from leveraging second brain type tools to not bringing out permission, to learning out the app as you go, to then accounting for your systems as you capture that stuff because the main friction that will be in your way, it's mostly gotta be
02:03:36
You log in to different accounts for different purposes. So I cannot stress this enough, you know, get into the habit of managing your passwords on the backend for different platforms, so that it's as easy as you plug and play, find what you want to find and you offload as much of that energy as possible to then do the thing you actually want to do, which is, you know, explore, publish, or it's repeat.
02:04:07
So that concludes the, I'd argue, a core lesson that applies not just to second brain software, but really anything else. You know, this can be applied just as in learning a language, to learning, you know, how to create a new pipeline or a new system, to even coming up with a new concept from scratch for creating a story.
02:04:35
It's the same idea there. And I know this because I've had this conversation at Nozium with a writer who basically has a degree in this whole thing, you know what I mean? So I'm literally giving you, stir free what someone had to pay money to learn at school.
02:05:00
think about that? Any thoughts, any comments? No, nothing like no questions or anything like that. My initial thoughts are like, trying to figure out essentially what the fuck to do. So I have to bet that that last conclusion section that I wrote about in the document, I'll read that and paste it somewhere so that it can reference to later.
02:05:27
The one that says creations on something in publication. Yeah, that's the point you should have somewhere for yourself. And then you go as you go. And the next step, when, when I do publish things, I should show them separate, um, episode and what you can basically come through and figure out the other parts that are relevant to what you need and you can go from there. And also it, it effectively, it's going to put to interaction.
02:05:56
That very concept we talked about, which is this idea of, you know, capturing, consuming, framing and shot, and it's to repeat.
02:06:06
So BD, the prophecy fulfills itself affectionately.
02:06:15
Is there anything that perhaps you would want me to elaborate upon that did not quite make any sense? Let's go back through. I'll probably shoot you a message and if there's anything else. But right now, I couldn't really think of anything, to be honest.
02:06:37
Well, so if you were to give me a basic summary in terms of like what you took away from everything and what was the thought in terms of the process of you learning that, you know, whether good or bad, you know, like you can just put out everything that's up to my own, uh, or to all. I guess like, I love it makes.
02:07:05
sense in how you manage to break it down into the process and stuff. A lot of my own, like, other way that I think about things is based on like, still the idea of whether I can actually do something. Like, that's where I'm just kind of shutting off.
02:07:35
It's incredibly hard to stop that from happening.
02:07:41
It's like that wall that I was talking about, just immediately blew up.
02:07:48
Yuri, could you think about the underlying feeling of why that's happening? Like why is there a wall? What's causing you to be stuck or to feel stuck? I don't really know.
02:08:13
If I'm honest.
02:08:20
So here's a fun little exercise you can do. So like, see three things, just out of random, no real connection whatsoever. Say three things that annoy you, makes you angry or frustrate you. Like literally, don't think about it too hard, just say these three things.
02:08:45
I'm going to preface that with when my friend asked me a very similar question about how I would describe the people I know the other day. My head went blank.
02:09:06
Hug it.
02:09:10
Deli when that comes to mind is inability. Right. Inability to... Figure something out. Um...
02:09:22
Like even figuring out what steps I need to take to do something. So the execution, would you say that it's overwhelming to you?
02:09:36
And when you see overwhelming specifically, could you get into the more details in terms of not what that means? You know, like, is it fear or is it just- What? .. confusion or is it something different?
02:09:50
because it's the way I can describe it is like having your head in a beehive and all the thoughts are everything just freaking the fuck out inside the beehive and not being able to figure out you know where to like yeah. I do go for it there. Yeah exactly I think so. So it sounds like
02:10:17
One thing that for sure can be an issue is that once you're stuck in that, it can be really hard to make sense of your own thoughts. And even for me, that's a process that took a long time to refine and master to get to a point where even when the midst of me being confused, I still have an idea of like, so that's perfectly normal. Just know that you're not, you're not weird or you're not, um, that doesn't
02:10:47
take away from your ability to execute because this happens to you. So don't let that sense of overwhelm or confusion or steer even, um, that gets you stuck too much. So the one thing that you can do off the bat to address that is to quite literally write about what it is you're feeling and then document that in relation to what it is you want to do. You know, so, so it could be writing, it could be speaking.
02:11:16
whatever method works for you, but if you detect that it's noisy in there, then quite literally vomiting, you know, like put it out.
02:11:28
Because the more it stays in there, the more it's going to build up and the more it builds up the more it confuses you. So it's a feedback loop. And another thing that personally I would have you consider as well is to just having a support system in that sense of people that relate to this current journey that you're on. Because it is a journey after all.
02:11:58
And not everyone is going to relate to it. I'm sure you can't talk to anyone about, or to everyone about 3D specific stuff or stuff you wouldn't want to do and so on and so forth. So consider me being such part of said support networks so that if you get at any point where you feel like something is really that noisy or it feels like a beehive that mush,
02:12:27
So you can basically go in there.
02:12:31
And uh...
02:12:35
about the what's going on because that's really what it is you know it's really this idea of
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putting it out there, then have someone put that back at you in a way that leads sense to them and then break it down from there. So it's a first principle thinking sort of thing. And that leads me into the last thing I want to mention is for you to, that's your challenge for today, is to take what we've basically covered today and just do something simple, you know, like go on. I challenge you to, by the end of today,
02:13:13
to have a video up on YouTube and it doesn't have to be any longer than 5 minutes. That's it.
02:13:25
That's a challenge. It could be about whatever it could be about whatever things you're allowed to hit me up about it and I'll ask some thoughts or questions, but at the end of the day, your challenge is at least that for you to overcome that beehive in your head and by the end of it to still have something being out, you know? I mean, I'll give it a go. Cool.
[Whiz Pill Podcast 60] Designing The Perfect Solo Creator System (Seminar)