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Descript to Final Cut Pro X - My Workflow As A YouTuber (2024) + My Frustrations

Firstly, Descript is amazing. Secondly, Descript sucks. If you've ever tried to use their software recently, you'll notice it's buggy as heck, and that Final Cut Pro X timeline exports do not work out of the box. They either create gap clips and black

reflections

How To Do Great Work - Selected Quotes

Selected quotes from Paul Graham's essay 'How To Do Great Work'.

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My Position On AI Art

I believe one can both be pro-AI and pro-artist at the same time. But the reasons for feeling that way are pretty complex, so I've written down my rationale in this essay.

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AI Art: A Discussion About Potential Ethical Approaches

AI art is controversial. I asked my friends about the most ethical approach to it.

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I React To MrWhoseTheBoss’s Health Video

MrWhoseTheBoss made a video talking about his health suffering. This is the written transcript for a video I made about it.

tutorials

Using Regex in Visual Studio Code (Brief)

Here's how I used the Find and Replace tool in Visual Studio Code to quickly regex some text (converting .srt to Skillshare's weird subtitle format).

Descript YouTuber Workflow: How To Do Editing Across Multiple Tracks

UPDATE 11 JUNE 2024: Descript actually sucks for Final Cut Pro X now, because they made their software buggy, but I figured out a solution. Go here to figure out how to use Descript in 2024 for Final Cut Pro X. UPDATE 4 May 2022: Please skip to Part 2

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Notes: MrBeast Interview on Joe Rogan Podcast (3/7/22)

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Pain Is The Signal

One of the most useful lessons from Ray Dalio’s Principles that helped me become a better doctor.

The Things About Exponentials

Why exponential growth is unintuitive and a way to better focus on it

ecommerce

How to create a high converting product page: a guide

This is my guide to creating a high converting sales page on Shopify.

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The First Time

Savour the first time, since you only get it once.

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Optimise for happiness

It’s important to do what you believe in.

learning

Life hacks for memorising way more

My viral Reddit post on how to learn way more effectively.

On standing near death

There's nothing that gives you more perspective than talking with someone who you know will die soon. Here's what I learnt.

On being valued by audiences

A snippet from a small discussion I had with someone recently that I thought may be valuable to share, for someone who wonders if what they're making is valuable. I was discussing this with another YouTuber friend of mine the other day: when it comes to changing people’

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'The Courage to Be Disliked'

Someone I knew had experienced some negative feedback from their audience for something they made, and was feeling quite hurt by it. Here's what I said to them.

tutorials

Export WordPress To Ghost Pro - How To

My hacky way for exporting from Wordpress to Ghost when your plugins just don't work. Includes an image uploader via API and redirects.json file for changing Wordpress to Ghost URLs.

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My YouTube Lighting setup

The equipment I used for lighting this exact shot.

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The YouTube Journey (Live Updates + Lessons Learnt)

My YouTube journey as I live it, because contemporaneous documentation is going to be more accurate. With lessons learnt at each stage of growth.

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Beginner’s mind

The pursuit of more leads to better outcomes than the pursuit of perfection, ironically.

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Limits

Psychological limitation is arguably more important than any realism the world may throw at us. A logical way to understand our own limitations and how to overcome them.

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Consistency

Each moment of growth is invisible, until it's not.

anki

Notion2Anki: Removing Image Stretching in Anki

Fix image stretching from Notion2Anki using this one line of code!

tutorials

Regex: A quick summary in Python

A summary of Chapter 7 of 'Automate the Boring Stuff With Python'. This is about pattern matching with regular expressions (regex).