YouTube, writing online and creators
Starting and growing a YouTube channel, gear and filming, niches and consistency, money from content, newsletters and writing online, and the creator life and its burnout. Gear reviewed for its own sake is “Tools, apps and tech”; a creator business beyond content is “Business and entrepreneurship”.
The main topic of 2 sources; one of the topics of 7 more.
Videos
| date | video | format |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-15 | Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 | Vlog or day in the life |
| 2018-03-07 | Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal | Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard) |
Also touch on it
- 2017-09-07 · Journey to placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #02 · Vlog or day in the life
- 2017-09-22 · Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Baking - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #06 · Vlog or day in the life
- 2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! · Q&A video
- 2018-04-16 · Monthly Favourites #3 - Ali Abdaal · Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard)
- 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student · Livestream or live hangout
- 2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal · Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard)
- 2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 · Vlog or day in the life
Often together
People: Gary Vaynerchuk · Casey Neistat · Taimur Abdaal · Callum
Organizations: 6med · University of Cambridge
Concepts: show your work · active recall
Events: BMAT (exam)
Products: DJI Mavic Pro
Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017) · Ali says he will do more livestreams because this one was a really fun way to spend 45 minutes. · Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. · How do you start a YouTube channel? · Ali hopes another revision video will be up the next morning, to be followed by another study-with-me vlog and more vlogs. · Ali predicts hardly anyone but friends will watch his vlogs (2017) · How do you become confident on camera and in public speaking? · Ali says there will be a vlog at some point on a day in the life on his GP placement by the coast.
Key statements
The most important statements (★★★) in the parts on this topic, at most 3 from one source: 13.
- 2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — announcement: Ali wants to vlog his life as a doctor from beginning to end, starting on 1 August 2018, and in the meantime his medical elective and final year at Cambridge. — 00:00:58
- 2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — announcement: Ali hopes to make his 50 terrible videos over the next year, so that when junior-doctor life starts on 1 August 2018 he can film decent vlogs, maybe weekly, on being a junior doctor. (hedged) — 00:01:39
- 2017-07-15 · Why I'm starting a Vlog - Cambridge Medical Elective #01 — Ali: Even if no one watches, Ali says vlogging will be fun and will stretch his creative muscles, a creative outlet through medical school and as a doctor. — 00:02:37
- 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali highly recommends Gary Vaynerchuk's Crushing It to anyone into entrepreneurship: it tells stories of people who turned side projects into businesses through a personal brand. — 00:08:35
- 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Gary Vaynerchuk (quoted): Gary Vaynerchuk's "document, don't create": instead of creating content, think of it as documenting your life, what you know or your process of learning. — 00:13:16
- 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says thinking of a video as documenting rather than creating takes the pressure off and makes content much easier to make. — 00:13:16
- 2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — recommendation: Ali advises a new blogger to expect no readers for months or years: there is no point promoting a site with one or two posts; write high-quality posts regularly and readers will follow, valuing the backlog. — 00:07:55
- 2018-04-16 · Monthly Favourites #3 - Ali Abdaal — Ali finds Matt D'Avella very inspirational because he started on YouTube with zero subscribers, a barrier to entry for many people and once for Ali himself. — 00:10:35
- 2018-04-16 · Monthly Favourites #3 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali says high production value is not necessary on YouTube: all you really need is a decent microphone, and you can film anything even with an iPhone. — 00:11:33
- 2018-04-16 · Monthly Favourites #3 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says Matt D'Avella followed a formula of good production value plus good content plus consistency, and his channel has exploded in popularity in the last two months. — 00:12:32
- 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali started YouTube about nine months earlier because, when he consumes something, he asks whether he could produce it: watching Casey Neistat and Peter McKinnon made him want to vlog. — 00:53:09
- 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Another reason for starting YouTube was driving traffic to SixMed, which Ali had run for about four years and was bored of; he wanted to do medical education, and few doctors were on YouTube. — 00:53:42
- 2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — recommendation: Ali proposes that the Cambridge clinical school make its own YouTube channel of high-quality educational videos for medical students. — 00:02:39