It's still not winter here, but the morning brought us a nice surprise...

Okay, @Faith Adebayo inspired me again. This is a post for premium tier members. I'll be sending notifications here. If you're on the premium tier or just curious about what this is all about, please click the 🔔 icon in the top right of this post. This is a workaround, so that I can communicate with the members on the premium plan without spamming the members on the free plan 🙏 Because personally I don't like when someone talks about something, sends me a link and then it turns out it's behind a paywall. With the tools I have available, I'll try to minimize those kinds of situations.

Which sucks because I'd like to not spam free members with premium gated content. So I'll try to send as little premium notifications as possible. After the Skool news call I'll be doing a live call for the premium tier, just to talk shop. But like I said, I won't be creating a post every time. I'll also do a why I love tiers and why I hate tiers video to try to lobby them adding the tiered category functionality. @Faith Adebayo thank you for the tip!

Small deeds can go a long, long way. A couple of years ago, I gave a friend a coloring book. He's an artist, and at that time, he didn't have the money to buy the coloring book, but it was a very special coloring book that he could only get at that time, and probably he would not have gotten that book in the future, even if he had the money. He'd probably forget or something similar to that. I knew this. So I bought him that coloring book at that time and I gifted it to him. And I totally forgot about it. Now, yesterday I got a package from him. He said he wanted me to look at this thing and give my opinion. So I had no idea what it was. I opened it and it turned out to be this beautiful painting that he did for me. And it took him a couple of years to actually do it. Of course, he did it in his free time. That's why it took so long. But it's just amazing. And he actually went and got a specialist to put a frame around it. He told me that after he got that book, things changed for him. He rediscovered his artistic side, and it helped him in different ways. And that's why he started thinking of a way to give back. That's when he decided to do the painting for me. The painting is amazing. We both practice Falun Dafa, which is a Chinese meditation practice that is heavily persecuted in China. And Because of that this painting has an additional layer of meaning to me. So I just wanted to share this with all of you. I hope you're having a wonderful Friday.

So how fast are the upload speeds of the videos you upload to Skool, compared to something like YouTube? I don't know, but Skool feels much slower. But is it? I'll test this at one point. Currently I think the feeling is connected the animation for the upload. With YouTube you see the time and when it's processing you can close the browser tab. With Skool you need to keep it open, especially if you have a post or are adding a video to your about page. The images below show the Skool upload panel vs Youtube. I hope we get a video library at one point, so if we create a new post or classroom page, we can reuse videos that we already uploaded. Concluding, I think Skool just feels slower (I do a lot of YouTube uploading).