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A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands

2020-11-11 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali, Ali Abdaal (channel) · recording, 6:48 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship (also: Productivity and time, Health, sleep and habits, Relationships and personal life) · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough · tags: His own products discussed, His own numbers, Sponsor segment present

In a day-in-the-life vlog of his Unemployment Diaries, Ali works through a "vacation" day in Tenerife: he plans the final details of his first Part-Time YouTuber Academy cohort with Angus, talks to Apple's marketing team and his business coach, rereads Perennial Seller and squeezes in the gym before flying back into a UK lockdown.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Morning in Tenerife: espresso, morning dump and planning the day on the balcony

  • ★★ In an episode of his Unemployment Diaries vlog, Ali spends a productive working day of his vacation in Tenerife in the Canary Islands. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Ali starts the day on the hotel balcony with an espresso and his iPad, doing his morning dump, planning his day and scrolling through Twitter. — 00:00:00 · iPad, Twitter, iPad Pro

00:00:29 — Zoom call with Angus on the Part-Time YouTuber Academy; a chat with Apple's marketing team

  • ★★★ On a Zoom call Ali and Angus plan the final details of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, a four-week live interactive course Ali runs for the first time from next week (week of 16 November 2020). — 00:00:29 · Angus, Zoom
  • ★★ Ali has not mentioned the Part-Time YouTuber Academy on YouTube before, only on Twitter and his mailing list; its next cohort is in February 2021. — 00:00:29 · Twitter
  • ★★ Ali talks with someone from Apple's marketing team about how Apple products fit into his workflow for YouTube, medicine and life. — 00:00:58 · Apple
  • ★ Ali hopes Apple will one day send him review units, so he no longer has to buy its products himself to make videos about them. (playful) — 00:00:58 · Apple

00:01:27 — Course preparation by the pool and on the beach: the Notion knowledge base for 400 students

  • ★ By the hotel pool Ali writes and plans for the Part-Time YouTuber Academy on his iPad Pro, listening to his Spotify Study With Me playlist on AirPods Pro. — 00:01:27 · iPad Pro, Spotify
  • ★ Ali waits half an hour for the Apple Store to load so he can upgrade his phone to the iPhone 12 Pro Max. — 00:01:27 · Apple
  • ★★ On the beach Ali works on the Part-Time YouTuber Academy knowledge base in Notion, meant to answer the most common questions of the course's 400 students. — 00:02:28 · Notion

00:02:57 — Business coach call, Simple Pickup, brand assets, the selfie stick and rereading Perennial Seller

  • ★★ Ali has a one-hour call with his business coach about life and business; the coach also gives him relationship advice prompted by one of Ali's tweets. — 00:02:57
  • ★ Ali watches a YouTube video on the rise and fall of Simple Pickup, a channel he watched a lot in his youth. — 00:03:27
  • ★★ Filming with a selfie stick, Ali finds that everyone dismisses him as a tourist, whereas filming with his big camera would creep people out and could get him told not to film in the hotel. — 00:03:27
  • ★★ Ali is rereading Ryan Holiday's Perennial Seller, which he first read in 2018, to mine more timeless wisdom from it. — 00:03:56
  • ★ Ali fits in a workout at the hotel gym because all gyms will be closed when he gets back to the UK in a few days. — 00:03:56

00:04:25 — Gym before the UK lockdown, with Starsight on Audible

00:04:40 — Skillshare sponsor read: his six classes

00:05:35 — Dinner with his camera friend, back to the UK into lockdown, sign-off

  • ★★ Ali is flying back to the UK shortly, straight into a full lockdown, after a few days of working vacation. — 00:06:22

In the description and comments

  • ★★ Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked whether to return a just-delivered 13-inch, 16 GB MacBook Pro and buy the new M1 MacBook Pro instead, the channel answers yes. — creator comment · MacBook
  • ★ Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked whether the iPad Air seen in the video means an iPad Air review is coming soon, the channel says yes. — creator comment · iPad Air

Humor (significant)

  • Ali makes himself an espresso that, as expected, tastes grim — 00:00:00

    “Why do people drink this stuff voluntarily?”

  • Ali feels the sand under his feet for a few seconds on the beach — 00:01:56

    “That few seconds of enjoying life is more than enough to sate my appetite for fun and so I get back to being productive.”

  • Ali films around the hotel with a selfie stick — 00:03:27

    “roaming around a bit with my selfie stick like the Pakistani tourist that I am”

  • Ali hits the gym before UK gyms close for lockdown — 00:04:25

    “I need to maximize my gains to continue my quest to become a Gymshark athlete someday”

  • Ali urges viewers to watch all his Skillshare classes — 00:04:54

    “if you love the sound of my voice as much as I do”

  • Ali refuses to reveal the gender of the friend filming the trip — 00:05:53

    “if you speculate on it in the comment section anyway it makes the YouTube algorithm far more likely to promote this video”

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Mentioned

Central: Part-Time YouTuber Academy · Tenerife

Also: People: Angus · Brandon Sanderson · Ryan Holiday

Works: Perennial Seller · Starsight

Organizations: Apple · Gymshark · Simple Pickup · Twitter

Products: AirPods Pro · Audible · iPad Pro · iPhone 12 Pro Max · MacBook · Notion · Spotify · Zoom

Only in the description or credits: iPad Air

Also centred on Part-Time YouTuber Academy: How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers · A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) · PRODUCTIVE Day in the Life of an Aspiring Gymshark Athlete · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses

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