3 biggest lessons for YT business in general.

1. Connections are everything. Knowing the right guy has many times over the years given me an advantage over my competition. Build your network. 2. If you have a winner video, something going properly viral (1M views), I cannot stress this enough - but it can change your life. Do not overthink/waste time. Double down on it. Yes that one video can cause a domino effect that changes your life forever. 3. Forget over diversification. Just like business, the most successful entrepreneurs locked in on one model until they mastered their craft. You don't need to be collecting infinity stones. If you get good at a niche, grow inside it. Then grow in its verticals. Before you even consider chasing the next shiny object.

Only alpha I'll share about Fable 5 You have ~10 days left. Don't waste them on dumb things Use it to improve your systems Thank me in 11 days

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

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You make AI animal rescue videos. Taking away precious attention from channels like the Golden Kobe Family I work on every single week, where we actually rescue real dogs. Dogs that need a second chance. Love. Care. You profit from fake sad stories, while channels like ours try to profit enough to show more real and raw stories to do more good. AI content has a part of our future, but the moment it starts taking away attention from the real thing in cases like these, I have zero sympathy. You are actively hurting channels who do actual good in the world and can use all the attention. Don’t complain about working hard, while people like @jayjaay4_ and his wife Ella work day and night, having these rescues in their actual home. You just try to monetize fake sob stories and use the poor voiceover you hire to create sympathy for the invisible owner of the channel. Do better.

I may have been a bit too optimistic with my prediction that the EU would ban or regulate VPNs within five years. It looks like they’ll do it within a year. It terrifies me how many relatively sane people who believe in the EU justify this totalitarian, dystopian practice and explain its necessity. Something that was considered a totalitarian practice in China or Russia 10 years ago is now seen as a political necessity in the EU as part of the fight against hybrid threats, Russia, child pornography, etc. Hello! Based on what it plans and does, the EU is actually showing signs of a dystopian society! I am currently in developed Japan, and there are no state-enforced cash limits here, no Age Control, no MiCA, DAC-8, or other dystopian EU regulations. Online anonymity is the norm here. EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vp…

One of the most humbling ADHD realizations? The excitement comes from planning the hobby—not actually doing it. The dopamine wasn’t in doing the hobby… it was in imagining the version of me who would.

BREAKING: U.S. researchers report rectal cancer deaths are rising rapidly in younger adults. Millennials described as especially hard-hit. Lead investigators say the increase in rectal cancer appears 2 to 3 times faster than colon cancer in the same younger age groups.

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?