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Thomas Frank

creator · in 24 sources (2019–2020)

Sources by year: 2019: 7 · 2020: 17

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Also named in the threads: Ali plans to take the USMLE and move to America for an emergency medicine residency (2020)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Matt D'Avella (8) · Notion (8) · YouTube (5) · CuriosityStream (2) · Brilliant (2) · Tiago Forte (2) · second brain (2) · Christian (2) · Peter McKinnon (2) · Nebula (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-01-29 · 48h Study With Me + Highlighting Tips — Ali says he struggles with goal setting because he does not really believe in setting goals, but recently his mind has started to change, and his friend Thomas Frank has been part of that change. — 00:07:15
  • 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali would love to collaborate with Thomas Frank and Matt D'Avella; one big reason he wants to live in the US for a while is that it unlocks collabs with many of his internet friends. — 00:25:55
  • 2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Being in the US would unlock collaborations: most of his YouTuber friends, such as Thomas Frank, Matt D'Avella and Sarah Dietschy, his agency Standard and productivity people like Tiago Forte and Nat Eliason are there. — 00:14:33
  • 2020-07-07 · My Creative Workflow with Notion — Ali's Notion video template is taken from his friend Thomas Frank's video on the Notion setup he uses to make videos; Ali found Frank's too complicated for his team and simplified it with his own elements. — 00:05:35
  • 2020-08-04 · How to Make Money from your Passion — Sarah Dietschy says originality is what you make of the things you are into, with your own spin: the corner of YouTube of Ali and Thomas Frank was not even a thing five years ago. — 00:06:42
  • 2020-08-20 · The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System — Ali: The tenth Building a Second Brain principle, keep your ideas moving, is anti-perfectionist: a trap in building a note-taking system is perfectionism, such as making an elaborate Notion database of everything you have read with 18 pieces of metadata each. — 00:13:20
  • 2020-08-23 · The Perfect Note-Taking App — Ali says the note-taking app matters, but finding one that fits your personality matters more; moving your whole life to Notion because Ali Abdaal and Thomas Frank use it is the wrong way to think. — 00:04:55
  • 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali: Thomas Frank changed Ali's life most directly: in October 2019 he introduced Ali to Standard, the agency Ali is now part of. — 00:07:37
  • 2020-12-16 · How Twitter Changed my Life #Shorts — Ali: Thomas Frank followed Ali almost at once; Ali messaged him a question about sponsorships, and Frank got on a two-hour Skype call with him and introduced him to the agency Ali is now part of, which Ali says completely changed his life. — 00:00:00
    • Around September 2019, after his brother, big into tech Twitter, told him Twitter would change his life, Ali got on Twitter and started replying to tweets of Thomas Frank and Sarah Dietschy, people he knew through YouTube. — 00:00:00
    • Ali's point: replying a few times to someone on Twitter can lead to life-changing connections, as just replying to Thomas Frank's tweets led to his agency. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Towards the end of 2019 Ali joined Standard, an agency of about 100 educational creators including Simon Clark, MedLife Crisis, LegalEagle and Wendover Productions; Thomas Frank introduced him. — 00:29:53
  • …and 8 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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2019

  • 2019-11-26 · How my friend ranked 1st at Medical School - The Active Recall Framework — recommendation: Ali recommends the book Make It Stick on how to learn effectively, and his friend Thomas Frank's videos. — 00:05:40
  • 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali: The productivity YouTuber Thomas Frank gave Ali a lot of good advice a few months before and introduced him to Standard, the agency Ali is now part of. — 00:02:56
    • Signing with the agency Standard changed the game for Ali on YouTube: he can now do sponsored videos pretty much whenever, and the extra money lets him hire people full time and scale the channel. — 00:03:25
  • …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

Also named in: How to Study for Exams - The STic Framework for Effective Learning, How I use my iPad Pro as a Doctor, Do students need an iPad or a MacBook?, Study with Me + How I Learn New Content