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29 statements about Reddit in 24 sources, by upload date.
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2026
- 2026-01-27 · 22 ONE-MINUTE Habits That Save Me 25+ Hours a Week — Ali says he has received a lot of hate on Reddit and elsewhere for listening to audiobooks at double speed. — 00:08:40
- 2026-04-25 · I got cancelled for my 2x speed — Ali: A few years ago Ali made a video about watching TV and anime at double or sometimes triple speed; it got more than 50% dislikes, and people on Reddit called him toxic productivity. — 00:00:00
- 2026-07-10 · i am begging you to try harry potter fan fiction — Ali held that view of fan fiction until about the middle of 2025, when he came across a Reddit thread about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. — 00:01:23
- 2026-07-10 · i am begging you to try harry potter fan fiction — Ali expected The Rigel Black Chronicles to be trashy gender-swap nonsense from its plot summary, but Reddit fans were keen, and he concluded he should not judge a book, or Harry Potter fan fiction, by its premise. — 00:13:51
- 2026-10-10 · How to Learn So Fast People Assume You’re Naturally Gifted (with AI) — Ali: Before AI you had to google, read Reddit or a blog post and trust the author; because AI has basically read the internet, Ali says, you can ask it to argue with itself. — 00:15:26
2025
- 2025-01-17 · How to Actually Get in Shape in 2026 - My Evidence-Based Guide — recommendation: Ali: To find a workout plan, Ali suggests Google, Reddit, Nerd Fitness or Jeff Nippard's YouTube channel; he bought one of Nippard's guides and finds it really good. — 00:12:54
- 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali suggests giving the AI different personas to distort the mirror, such as a drill-sergeant prompt he found on the ChatGPT prompts subreddit. (hedged) — 00:17:00
- 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali's memory-based prompt for ChatGPT, from the ChatGPT prompts subreddit, asks: what is my hidden narrative and subtext, the one thing I never express, the fear I don't admit? — 00:26:13
- 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali: A single ChatGPT prompt copied from Reddit hit Ali, he says, in a way none of the professional coaches he has paid ever have. — 00:31:55
- 2025-06-13 · He Built a $1M Business in 12 Months - Every Step Explained (Case Study) — recommendation: Suhail Idrees: To find problems worth solving, Suhail says to listen out for people complaining, reflect on recent conversations, or browse forums like Reddit where people complain about software and daily issues. — 00:33:55
- 2025-06-13 · He Built a $1M Business in 12 Months - Every Step Explained (Case Study) — recommendation: Suhail Idrees: To find first users without contacts, Suhail would edit a few videos himself to learn the problems, then go into every forum he can think of, such as Discord, Slack and Reddit groups of editors. — 01:25:35
- 2025-08-15 · The best Harry Potter fanfiction? — Ali: After Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Ali thought nothing could be better fan fiction, then searched Reddit for recommendations and came across The Debt of Time. — 00:00:36
Also named in: How to finally start your first business in 2026
2024
- 2024-01-27 · The Story of Filet-o-Fish1066 🐟 — Ali tells how in June 2016 the Reddit user Filet-o-Fish1066 made headlines for being fired after six years as a software developer testing software in quality assurance, work Ali calls deeply boring. — 00:00:00
- 2024-06-12 · Start a Business While Working Full Time 🧑💻 — recommendation: Ali: Instead of thinking of business ideas, Ali says to think of the problems your chosen group of people has, using weekends and evenings to talk to them or browse subreddits to pin those problems down. — 00:00:17
- 2024-07-26 · THIS Cured My iPhone Addiction — Ali: Scrolling YouTube on the toilet kept Ali up until midnight or 1 a.m.; Opal now blocks YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit on his phone after 9 p.m., so he reads and sleeps on time. — 00:00:00
- 2024-10-08 · How to Study for Exams with Flashcards (Anki Masterclass) — recommendation: Ali: Find pre-made decks through an online community for your subject, such as Reddit, and pick the decks everyone uses, which are better fact-checked. — 02:52:12
Also named in: Reading Mean Online Comments About Me
2023
- 2023-10-13 · How to Make $10,000/Month Writing Online — recommendation: Ali: Good places to write online, Ali says, are platforms that already have an audience: Twitter (X), LinkedIn for business content, Wattpad for fiction, Quora, Reddit and Medium. — 00:05:04
Also named in: My Productive Phone Setup
2022
- 2022-02-25 · How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali's idea generation machine has six or seven ways to find video ideas, such as looking at other YouTube channels, competitive research, Reddit and BuzzFeed. — 01:19:17
2021
- 2021-02-26 · Brandon Sanderson on Writing, Storytelling and Fantasy Books — recommendation: Brandon Sanderson recommends against changing your plans because of fan theories: if a writer does the job well, twists are foreshadowed and nothing comes out of nowhere. — 01:17:09
- 2021-06-24 · How to Learn Anything FASTER — Ali: Learning to play the piano by ear, Ali spent time on the Learn Piano subreddit, and this preparation before he sat down to learn really accelerated his learning. — 00:01:08
- 2021-10-29 · 8 Lessons I Learned From Elon Musk — Elon Musk (quoted): Asked in a Reddit AMA which daily habit has had the largest positive impact on his life, Elon Musk replied simply: showering. — 00:02:35
2020
- 2020-03-24 · How to be More Productive in Lockdown — recommendation: Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked how Ali started learning the piano, the channel answers that he used random YouTube videos and the learn piano subreddit. — creator comment
- 2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali: The USMLE Step 1 subreddit points Ali to a few pre-made Anki decks for the exam. — 00:03:57
- 2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — recommendation: Ali learned the piano and the guitar by following the recommendations of the Learn Piano and Learn Guitar subreddits; now, to learn anything new, he turns to the subreddit for that topic and is never disappointed. — 00:03:57
- 2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali: Asked where he gets his knowledge of tax as an entrepreneur, Ali says mostly from Reddit and blogs. — creator comment
- 2020-10-01 · What's on my iPhone - Favourite iPhone Apps ft. @KharmaMedic — Ali: Kharma Medic keeps his infinity pools, such as YouTube Studio, Netflix, TikTok and Reddit, on the second page of his iPhone home screen. — 00:03:19
- 2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Kharma Medic: To share what he had learned about applying, Kharma Medic posted an Ask Me Anything on Reddit and then on The Student Room forum; nobody replied, so he put the content into a video. — 00:04:38
2019
- 2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali admits the main reason he uses split screen on the iPad is pretending to take notes in a lecture in one window while browsing Reddit in the other. (playful) — 00:00:29
- 2019-09-24 · Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 — Ali discovered the board game One Night Ultimate Werewolf this month (September 2019) after hearing it praised on the board games subreddit, and played it for the first time with friends. — 00:10:50