All statements about Instagram

95 statements about Instagram in 58 sources, by upload date.

2024

2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says scaling his business gives the option of hiring a ghostwriter for Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram; he has dabbled with it over the years, but for now it feels too inauthentic. — 00:02:44
2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali writes his weekly newsletter Sunday Snippets himself, and many of his own Instagram captions. — 00:02:44
2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says his courses, priced at $1,000 and more, are available free online, and that impersonators of his Instagram account have messaged his followers (all 800,000 of them, he says) offering the courses for about $7. — 01:02:48

2020

2020-01-07 · 15 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali: Home from work at 9 p.m., Ali often procrastinates on filming by scrolling Instagram on the sofa, too guilty about the unmade video to read a book or play his Nintendo Switch. — 00:14:14
2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali uses Lightroom for all his photo editing before posting photos on Instagram. — 00:08:30
2020-03-13 · The KEY Study Techniques for Exam Success — recommendation: Simon Clark turned off most phone notifications, including all Facebook, Twitter and Instagram ones, and is on Twitter far less since he removed its notifications. — 00:05:21
2020-03-24 · How to be More Productive in Lockdown — Ali says the piano is now one of the best things in his life, and he posts songs of himself singing and playing the piano on Instagram. — 00:00:58
2020-04-07 · A Productive Day in Isolation — Ali and his housemate Molly record an acoustic cover of You Raise Me Up, with her harmonising on the chorus, and he posts it to Instagram. — 00:07:10
2020-04-09 · I WAS WRONG - iPad Pro 11 vs. 12.9 inch — Ali: On the 11-inch iPad Pro Ali is much more tempted to waste time scrolling Instagram, or to reply to YouTube comments, which he says is fine but adds little value. — 00:07:15
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali: Wasting time on his phone before bed is normally completely forbidden in Ali's productivity philosophy, but on holiday he gives himself permission and scrolls Instagram. — 00:09:11
2020-04-19 · Productive Day in the Life in Lockdown // Behind the Scenes of my iPad Pro Videos — Ali spends another hour in bed on his phone with emails, Instagram messages and a Logan Paul vlog. — 00:00:00
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali: A great day for Ali is coming home from work having accomplished something and with good banter with nurses and doctors; days alone doing paperwork, or scrolling Instagram, feel wasted. — 00:26:19
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Starting today, Noah would use YouTube, Instagram and a SendFox newsletter, and post at least weekly for a year before even thinking of stopping. — 01:00:02
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah unfollowed everyone on Instagram, so there is nothing to see, and has no email on his phone. — 01:30:01
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali: A couple of weeks earlier, spending too much time on Instagram, Ali unfollowed the models he followed; his feed is now desk setups, landscape photography and workout accounts that push him to do pull-ups. — 01:30:26
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Noah Kagan: Noah asks of every activity whether it adds or subtracts: people give their time away accidentally, and Instagram and YouTube are optimised to waste it. — 01:31:27
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali keeps his guitar next to the couch, so on a break the easiest thing is to practise scales instead of scrolling Instagram, which serves his goal of busking. — 01:32:45
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali's environment design: remove friction from what you want to do and add it to what you don't, such as uninstalling Instagram or burying it in a folder; his is on the third page. — 01:32:45
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali likes the idea of asking on Instagram for someone anywhere in the world to host him for a week, then visiting them and making a video. — 01:35:00
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — announcement: Ali says that from August he will post on Instagram and YouTube so that someone can host him for a week. — 01:40:33
2020-05-10 · Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results - Atomic Habits by James Clear — James Clear (quoted): James Clear says short bursts of dopamine from a McDonald's drive-thru or scrolling Instagram reinforce bad habits, so good habits need some immediate gratification attached. — 00:09:13
2020-05-12 · I Tried Making a Viral Video - Day in the Life VLOG — Ali has hired a personal, or executive, assistant: she emailed him after he joked on an Instagram live about wanting one, and he hired her on the spot. — 00:06:10
2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali: Instead of doing anything useful after returning the parcel, Ali sits on the sofa replying to birthday WhatsApp messages and watches Instagram stories for half an hour. — 00:02:15
2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali: After retouching the thumbnail photos in Lightroom, Ali posts two on Instagram, planning to use one for the money video's thumbnail and the other for this vlog's. — 00:06:08
2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali: Section three of Ali's Anki class answers questions hundreds of people sent via his Instagram story: how long a flashcard should be, avoiding overload, staying motivated, what to put on a card, and Anki versus Notion, Google Sheets or Quizlet. — 00:01:27
2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali scrolls Instagram and Twitter at random during the day; he is trying to do less of it, but it always ends up happening. — 00:03:53
2020-06-03 · All the Apps I Use in a Day — Ali says that after work he usually ends up on the sofa scrolling Twitter and Instagram for an annoyingly long time instead of working out. — 00:05:50
2020-06-10 (said on 2020-06-01, implied) · Music, Reading and Note-Taking - Productive Day in the Life — Ali: Asked to upload his singing videos, Ali says they are on Instagram and he does not want to dilute his YouTube channel with them. — creator comment
2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Ali says he and Molly Hunt have properly fought only two or three times in eight years, all in the last year, over YouTube and Molly not being comfortable with parts of her life appearing on Instagram. — 00:17:48
2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — Ali used to take his phone into bed and lie awake for hours browsing Instagram, watching YouTube videos or, now and then, replying to a message on Tinder. — 00:01:27
2020-06-17 · How To Boost Productivity Without Apps — recommendation: Ali keeps only useful apps such as Notion, Drafts, Castro, Audible and Anki on his iPhone's first screen; Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and dating apps, the infinity pools, sit on the second screen. — 00:02:26
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — announcement: Ali: In a livestreamed Deep Dive, Ali and his housemate Molly Hunt answer viewers' questions, sent in via Instagram, on the lessons of their two years as doctors. — 00:00:35
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt: One of Molly Hunt's main hobbies is her food Instagram account, Cambridge Foodie, and she blogs on a website about food and a bit about her life. — 00:02:10
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Ali also wastes a lot of time: that morning he spent an hour and a half lying on the sofa scrolling Instagram. — 00:57:32
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt says Jake, who appears in lots of her Instagram videos, is moving to Cambridge. — 01:19:55
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali is still looking for a name for his series of videos about money; on Instagram "Money Talks" was popular but is already a film, he likes "Penny Sillin" (as heard), and many suggested "Finance She Ali". — 00:27:14
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — ask: Ali asks viewers for ideas for the name of his series about money. — 00:27:43
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: Until 10,000 or 20,000 subscribers Ali replied to every Instagram message; now he gets 50 to 100 DMs a day and does not even see 99% of them. — 00:12:08
2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied) · A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) — Ali's editor Christian reminds him to shoot a thumbnail for his MacBook Pro review, out later that day; Ali shoots it on the overhead rig while advising someone from Instagram on a business idea. — 00:01:56
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — recommendation: Ali: When Ali catches himself procrastinating, such as scrolling Instagram on the sofa, he asks himself what he wants to be doing right now, and if the answer is not scrolling, he gets up and does it. — 00:01:27
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Over the past few years Ali has become friends with many other creators through YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. — 00:08:58
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali does not even see many of his direct messages because they come in far too fast. — 00:25:38
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Unsure whether an income video was in poor taste during the pandemic, Ali polled Twitter, Instagram and YouTube; in all three about 85% said he should post it. — 00:00:58

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2019

2019-01-20 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps — recommendation: Ali edits photos for his Instagram in Lightroom CC on the iPad: he shoots in raw on his drone, phone or camera and moves the files over by SD card or AirDrop. — 00:07:52
2019-02-18 · iPad Pro Smart Keyboard Folio Review - My favourite typing experience of all time — Ali: With the Smart Keyboard Folio, Ali can reply to emails, messages and Instagram DMs on his iPad in spare moments at work. — 00:05:37
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali gets a few tens of Instagram message requests a day and likes seeing them on his Apple Watch at work as a little burst of happiness. (playful) — 00:02:51
2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — ask: Ali gives away his physical copy of The Courage to Be Disliked: viewers who leave a comment with their Instagram username enter a random draw, and he will write something in the front and include some of his favourite highlights. — 00:04:43
2019-04-02 · What's in my Camera Bag - My YouTube + photography travel gear — Ali says he has made all his YouTube videos and taken all his Instagram photos with the Sony A6500 since about September 2017. — 00:00:50
2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — announcement: Ali: The winner of Ali's giveaway of The Courage to Be Disliked is Carmen Calzon (as heard), a medical student at the University of Barcelona; Ali will get his address on Instagram and mail the book. — 00:00:00
2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — ask: Ali gives away a copy of Derren Brown's Happy with a message from him at the front: viewers who comment with their Instagram username enter, and one winner receives it. — 00:02:45
2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Ali now jams on the guitar with friends who enjoy singing, posts videos of his playing on his Instagram story, and has busked in Cambridge town centre a few times with friends, raising money for the local homeless shelter. — 00:11:09
2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Eugene Wei (quoted): In "Status as a Service", Eugene Wei argues that the success of social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat rests on humans being status-seeking monkeys who maximise their social capital as efficiently as they can, which also explains how people behave on them. — 00:02:47
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali films his piano-and-singing videos for his Instagram story on his iPhone and edits them in iMovie there, a poor experience, so he looks forward to the fuller video editing of iOS 13. — 00:02:54
2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — ask: Ali gives away his copy of Shoe Dog: viewers comment with an emoji at the start and their Instagram username, and he will message one winner on Instagram and send the book with a little message from him in the front. — 00:10:55
2019-08-06 · Smart Passive Income + The Third Door - Monthly Favourites #11 — announcement: Ali names Katerina Stoisavljevic (as heard) as the winner of the copy of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog from last month's (July 2019) giveaway; he will ask for her address on Instagram and post the book within a few months. — 00:00:00
2019-08-06 · Smart Passive Income + The Third Door - Monthly Favourites #11 — ask: Ali gives away a copy of The Third Door: viewers who want it leave a comment with their Instagram username, and he will message the winner. — 00:00:00
2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali: Until he had about 10,000 YouTube subscribers, Ali replied to every Instagram DM, email and Facebook message he got. — 00:16:01
2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — Ali's housemate Molly occasionally answers some of his Instagram DMs, since she knows the advice he would give. — 00:16:30
2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — announcement: Ali picks Broken Chalk (as heard), on Instagram Sophia Broken Chalk, as the winner of last month's (August 2019) giveaway of The Third Door, and will message her on Instagram to send her the copy. — 00:03:28
2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — ask: Ali gives away a physical copy of Ready Player One that he bought just to give away: viewers who want it comment with anything plus their Instagram username, and next month (October 2019) he will pick one and post the book. — 00:03:57
2019-10-01 · iPhone 11 vs iPhone 7/8/X/XR/XS - Real world camera comparison — Ali: To test the iPhone lenses, Ali asked on his Instagram story for volunteers to help him film in Cambridge town centre; four people came and met him at Downing College. — 00:02:55
2019-11-14 · Arrogance, Expectations & Inspiration - Personal Q&A with my Brother · Ali & Taimur Abdaal — Taimur Abdaal: Taimur keeps one fixed format for Instagram captions and for Facebook birthday wishes so that he does no thinking, and sees nothing inauthentic in intentionally sticking to a format. — 00:07:00
2019-11-14 · Arrogance, Expectations & Inspiration - Personal Q&A with my Brother · Ali & Taimur Abdaal — Taimur Abdaal: Taimur's Instagram captions are a single word or phrase describing the picture, because thinking more would get him caught up in what he is signalling and whether he is being authentic. — 00:07:34
2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — recommendation: Ali edits the photos for his Instagram page in Lightroom, with presets and a few other edits. — 00:09:12
2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali: In the journaling app Day One Ali keeps a journal of screenshots of nice comments from YouTube and Instagram, which he looks through as a pick-me-up when he feels sad. — 00:09:12
2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali keeps Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on page two of his iPhone to add a slight layer of friction; he thinks he would use Instagram much more if it were on page one. — 00:14:14
2019-12-21 · Reading Mean Comments — Ali's editor Christian went through the 117 roasts sent to Ali on Instagram and sorted them into categories such as forehead, hair and hairline. — 00:00:45
2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali's Instagram account recently reached 50,000 followers. — 00:04:53

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2018

2018-01-13 · My University Desk Setup - Cambridge Medical Student — Ali keeps a prism on his desk to remind him to experiment with it: held in front of a camera it creates effects that many Instagram photographers use for portraits. — 00:03:44
2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: A few weeks earlier Ali discovered hand lettering on Instagram and YouTube, a whole subculture of people doing it really well. — 00:09:21
2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali suggests that viewers new to hand lettering explore it by browsing Instagram pages. — 00:10:28
2018-03-10 · A day on GP placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #27 — Ali: In the evening Ali prepares for the Prescribing Safety Assessment and edits video and drone shots for Instagram. — 00:04:00
2018-04-10 · Study with me + My revision method - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #30 — announcement: Ali will do a 10,000-subscriber Q&A themed on study tips and revision on Thursday 12 April 2018, and asks viewers to send questions by Instagram or Snapchat message. — 00:05:50
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — announcement: Ali and two friends answer questions on revision and study tips that viewers sent in on Instagram; about 150 viewers sent messages and they filmed answers to about 25 questions. — 00:00:00
2018-04-14 · Last Minute Study Tips, Flashcards, Essays & Maths - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali: Answering students who asked on Instagram for last-minute tips a month before their exams, Ali says a month is not last minute but plenty of time. — 00:06:56
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali edits his Instagram photos in Adobe Lightroom, then again in the Instagram app so they fit the theme of his feed. — 00:10:36
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali is not distracted by social media unless he wants to be: whatever he is doing at any moment is what he most wants to be doing. — 00:19:53
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — announcement: Ali will do a Q&A with one of his friends doing graduate-entry medicine at Cambridge and asks viewers to send questions by email or Instagram. — 00:49:20
2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — announcement: Ali might at some point do a 20,000-subscriber Q&A and asks viewers to send questions in the comments, by Instagram message or by email. (hedged) — 00:10:33
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — announcement: Ali will do a 50,000-subscriber Q&A and asks viewers to send their questions in the comments or on Instagram. — 00:01:20
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali asks viewers to suggest videos for him to make; he cannot answer every YouTube comment but still tries to reply to every Instagram message. — 00:05:28
2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — Ali's channel has recently hit 50,000 subscribers; viewers sent about 120 questions by Instagram message, which he sorts by theme into separate Q&A videos, starting with life advice. — 00:00:00
2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — announcement: Ali: The next part of Ali's 50,000-subscriber Q&A will answer personal questions, such as about his girlfriend and his goals in life. — 00:21:53
2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Ali had never appreciated that studying medicine in Europe is a legit option, but Abdullah has sold him on it; he will send people who message him on Instagram after missing their offers Abdullah's way. — 00:30:52
2018-08-24 · Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A — announcement: Ali answers personal questions and questions on life as a junior doctor in one of the videos of his 50,000-subscriber Q&A series, built from about 120 viewers' questions. — 00:00:00
2018-09-11 · My new podcast - Microphone setup + reflections — announcement: Ali calls Intercourse a bit of a rogue name and asks viewers to send other names for the podcast in the comments or on Instagram. — 00:16:41
2018-10-25 · iPhone XS Max Review - Is it worth it? — Ali found the iPhone XS Max camera and portrait mode only slightly better than the iPhone 7 Plus's, and for uploading to Instagram or Facebook the 7 Plus quality is pretty much as good. — 00:02:16
2018-10-25 · iPhone XS Max Review - Is it worth it? — Ali: The only new thing the iPhone XS Max has let Ali do is that it has encouraged him to post on Instagram a bit more. — 00:07:56
2018-10-25 · iPhone XS Max Review - Is it worth it? — Ali: Posting more on Instagram builds memories Ali can share with his grandma and family in Pakistan, and, as a YouTuber, builds his personal brand for later benefits. — 00:08:25
2018-10-25 · iPhone XS Max Review - Is it worth it? — Ali did not need to spend 1,200 pounds to post more on Instagram: watching a Gary Vaynerchuk video telling him to post more would probably have had the same effect. (hedged) — 00:08:50
2018-10-29 · Study With Me - Scoping the Subject ft. Just Eat — Ali: Meaning to take a 10-minute break, Ali spends an hour on his guitar recording part of Ed Sheeran's "Castle on the Hill" for Instagram, which he jokingly calls "productive procrastination". — 00:05:50
2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — Ali journals in stints, posting every night and then going weeks without; he keeps separate Day One journals for his personal journal, for photos of memorabilia such as birthday cards, and for nice comments from YouTube and Instagram. — 00:11:09
2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — Ali uses the app Preview to plan his Instagram feed; at one point he tried to keep it to a consistent aesthetic theme. — 00:15:09
2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — Ali finds the Lightroom presets he uses a lot nicer than the filters built into Instagram. — 00:15:53
2018-11-01 · My Favourite iPhone XS Apps — recommendation: Ali: For Instagram stories Ali uses CutStory, which automatically cuts an uploaded video, such as one of him singing, into segments to post one after another. — 00:17:50

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