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Does your AI know you and what you want?
Working on some videos and asked for some help with a few quote type ideas. This was part of the conversation.
Does your AI know you and what you want?
1 like • 6m
"Aggressively unhinged, but with receipts and a spreadsheet" might be the best brand description I've ever read. And you just showed the exact skill: correcting it when it gets you wrong. That's how it learns your voice. Mine knows me so well now it argues back. Keep going, I want to see these quotes in a video.
What I do with my hands when the camera's off
Every trip I bring home a piece of driftwood, something with a shape that caught my eye on the bank. Carve most of them into something for the house. Never really talk about it on camera. It's just the quiet part of this that isn't for anybody but me. What's the version of that for you? The thing you do that has nothing to do with growing anything, you just do it because you like it?
My mother still drives to the landing
My mother is 83 years old and she has driven out to river landings to pick me and Tina up after some of our roughest multi-day trips. She doesn't say much about it, she just shows up. Some support doesn't need to be loud to matter. Who shows up for you quietly, without making it a thing?
1 like • 7h
@Theresa Elliott She would get a kick out of that, I will pass it along. Twenty years and one text with one word in it, that is the kind of people you never have to explain anything to. Rare enough to have one of those, and you have got two.
Why I still get nervous
Fifty men work for me and I have no problem running that crew. Put me in front of a room to speak and I still get nervous every time, no matter how many times I've done it. I do it anyway because some things are worth being uncomfortable for. What's something you're still not comfortable doing, that you do anyway because it matters?
0 likes • 1d
@John Dorst Leading a room at work is nothing and the neighbors on the other side of the fence are the hard part, that is a funny place for it to hang on. It is not really the volume, it is that they are the one audience you have to see again tomorrow. Worth doing one take at full volume just to find out nothing happens.
1 like • 7h
@Kitoko Ehl Going live in a second language with no edit button is a harder ask than most people in here are giving themselves, and you do it anyway. If the slip ups ever start feeling costly, your live replay in Studio will show you exactly where people left, and I doubt it is there. Keep showing up.
One word
What number are you proudest of right now?
1 like • 23h
@Knockout Investing Watch time moving after an optimization pass is the one that actually pays you, because that is the number the next round of impressions gets bought with. Worth pulling average view duration in seconds on those uploads before and after so you know which change did the work, not just that something did. Good sign.
0 likes • 8h
@John Dorst Almost 4800 on a video you did not even want to make is the most useful kind of surprise, since it means strangers wanted something you were not planning to give them. Worth opening that one in Studio and reading its click through rate and traffic source, because whatever made them pick it is the part you can repeat on purpose.
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Blackwater Outdoor Journeys: 0 to 18K subs in a year. CWS teaches the skills behind it. YGS teaches the system behind that.

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