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@construct_by_dee In this in-depth conversation, Dustin and Dee explore the intricacies of Obsidian, knowledge management, content creation, and personal development. We share insights on tools, workflows, and the future of AI integration, offering valuable tips for creators and knowledge enthusiasts."Obsidian is an extension of my brain.""AI plugins are transforming how we work."Links:https://www.youtube.com/@construct_by_dee
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In this in-depth conversation, Dustin and Dee explore the intricacies of Obsidian, knowledge management, content creation, and personal development. We share insights on tools, workflows, and the future of AI integration, offering valuable tips for creators and knowledge enthusiasts.
“Obsidian is an extension of my brain.”
“AI plugins are transforming how we work.”
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https://www.constructbydee.com/
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You can only make sense of yourself if you have something to look back on.
And that is what the daily note is.
Like, it's so much more than just filling in information and having statistics.
No, you have a trail.
It's past you screaming at you, like, hey, we want more of this.
This is what makes us happy.
I feel more naked if I don't have obsidian.
I would, if I have to choose between obsidian and my phone, I'll choose obsidian.
Because it does feel like an extension of my brain.
It's like, you have basically five years to learn how to learn.
Before, let's say you have two years to learn how to learn.
And then your life is going to get quite difficult
with all of this rapid change happening in AI.
Like, it's going to disrupt a lot of different industries.
Hello, I'm Dustin Pauli-Mater.
Today I'm to welcome you on to the Polytools Creator Spotlight.
Construct by D, who is a PKM consultant and YouTuber
building Construct by D in public.
Thank you for joining me on the show.
Thank you for having me.
Nice to be at us.
It's going to be great.
I know that we're going to nerd out a lot about obsidian.
That's why I was really excited to have this call.
Because I know that like, it's hard to talk to people
about something when you're at a sort of level.
And people want to talk about, oh, second brain paramethod,
when an actuality you, for example,
are creating these like intricate databases
and even taught me something new about making databases for journals.
And I watched those videos voraciously
and even had your blog posts saved on my to-do list
to kind of go through it even more deeply.
So I appreciate you nerdy not with me.
I'm very happy to find somebody else
as excited on a couple of these tools as I am.
So I'm pretty sure we're going to have a nice conversation.
For sure.
And I feel like there's also probably
going to be a lot of tensions going on here.
And for anybody listening in, I'm sorry about my voice.
I lost my voice this week.
I'll try to project as much as possible.
But hopefully, you'll be talking quite a bit here.
Let's just kind of start off here.
Since you have a faceless channel
and that kind of creates a air of a mystery.
People can watch.
I'm kind of curious to what got you started
as a content creator.
Because you want to make content.
But you're still keeping things hidden.
I like the framing of air of a mystery,
like I'm a vigilante or hiding down the scenes.
I think for the idea of having my channel up in front of me,
it's I want to make the content do the work
and not be a face for my ideas.
Let the ideas speak for themselves.
As for why I started,
I think it was quite a selfish reason.
So I always had this idea of,
well, let's backtrack.
It's like I was always interested in technology.
I was always interested in finding cheat codes for life,
essentially.
And I remember throughout university,
I was looking for something that can give me advantage.
Like I was doing financial analysis in university.
Then I went into consulting.
And all of these things, especially my career up until last year,
when I decided to go forward with this company I'm doing now,
you had to digest a lot of information very quickly.
And I never found a tool that lends itself well.
So three years ago, four years ago, I found Obsidian.
And I just immediately clicked.
And around the time I was listening to a podcast
on an article done away, I found it.
Where they were talking about the consumer versus producer mindset.
So I don't know if you're familiar with the consumer versus producer,
but the consumer is basically the person that sits in front of a YouTube channel
or YouTube video just consumes everything,
but they don't really take anything away from it.
Most of the time, you won't even like the post.
Or if it resonated with you, you wouldn't even comment.
So you're just a passive consumer.
And this person, again, I don't know where this article is.
I should actually go find it because it has a significant impact on my life.
He spoke about becoming a producer.
And there's different ways of becoming a producer.
And the easiest way is just to engage.
So if you like a YouTube video, you comment on it.
And then you are allowing this luck surface area,
or this luck surface net to become bigger,
where somebody else might respond to you
and you might have a nice conversation from it.
So now you're not a passive consumer.
You're actually producing something,
you're putting something back, you're giving something back.
And while I was playing around with this Obsidian,
and I wanted to learn it quicker
because I knew that advantages of it,
I decided to use the street code.
It's like, okay, if a producer wants it,
makes you learn something quicker.
And it increases the chances of people pointing out
where I might be going wrong.
Why not just go all in?
And I decided that day is like,
okay, well, let's just start a YouTube channel
and produce the first video.
So I think that is where I started.
Like a very selfish, a selfish endeavor
where I just wanted to learn it quicker
and get immediate feedback.
So I don't even think it's that pretty good.
Yeah, I don't even think it's that particularly selfish.
It's one of those things where it is a matter of leveling up
that you're learning ability.
There is like the Feynman technique
where you try to break something down as much as possible
and explain it to someone else as simply as possible.
And in doing so, you can either test
how deep your knowledge is,
but also make it more concretely memorized.
Also, there was something like,
when you were talking about it,
the creator versus producer,
kind of made me think, you know, five years ago,
something like that,
I was kind of exclaiming to somebody
about how some weeks I'm more of a creative,
some weeks I'm more of a consumer.
And it's interesting to me
where it's not necessarily good or bad
or like one is stronger than the other.
It's more about like what is my brain
want to do at that time?
Yeah.
So like one week I'll be like really creating a lot of content,
but I'm not really learning much.
And then there's other weeks where
I'm taking in a lot of information
and like going down rabbit holes
about decoupling or something like that,
but I'm not doing anything with it,
like you were saying there.
So I try to find that balance
where I'll make a blog post about what I'm learning
or I'll try to spend some time learning
when in between making videos or blog posts
and try to balance it out.
It's also hard to know when you're in that state
until a couple of days into it.
Because there's like a week long state almost in a way.
Yeah, but I'm curious with you also producing things,
there's obviously some people
that would comment on it or they would give feedback.
And I don't know if you remember the first time
when somebody gave you feedback and they gave you an idea
of like, of course, yeah, this is obviously
the easier way of achieving this goal.
So it's, I don't know, it feels like instead of Googling
for a solution, you have people that just come
and hand the solution in your lap without asking
because just because you put it out there.
So I think of it as like a just a nice little cheat cutway.
It's almost like, like let's say you are searching
for a new house, a living, a new city that you move to.
When you make your friends and family aware
that you're looking for an apartment,
you basically outsourcing your apartment search to people
because as soon as they hear about something,
they'll come back like, hey, I have this friend
that has this apartment.
It's the same things like you put your ideas out there
and you outsource your thinking to a wide collectors.
And I just say it's something beautiful.
They're really enjoying.
Some of my videos recently, I've literally done that
where I'm like, hey, I don't know what the solution is here.
If you have any like solutions or ideas,
leave it down in the comment below.
And like, for example, I'll show you this before the call.
I installed Bazite on here,
but I actually initially started it with Windows first
and then dual booted it with Bazite.
And I was actually consulting AI
and doing like a sound boarding session with it over and over
again, trying to figure out because I have an EGPU
that also has a drive in there.
How do I split the difference between Linux and Windows
because I have to do contact creation too?
I would want this device to be my all in one.
It's a powerful computer.
I could use it for a contact creation like we're doing right now
instead of using the little mini PC I'm using.
And I was trying to figure out like logistically,
how do I split the drives, internal and external
and the different operating systems
and I was trying to figure out, I even called up my uncle
who's a techie and my friend who's a techie
and then also using AI to try to outsource it like,
hey, give me ideas, give me kind of like function.
Yeah, but I've also, it's nice
because you basically get free consulting, right?
There's a couple of times when somebody comments
and I just said like, oh, this is cool,
we have a cool perspective.
Do you mind if we hop on a call?
You are getting free consulting sessions from experts
and they are freely giving it to you
when normally you would have to pay like 500 euros
for an hour call, you were just getting it before free.
Look, we're doing it right now, right?
It's a free networking.
Yeah, right?
And it's all because you put something out there.
Like, it's the reason, and it's not a free lunch,
you know, like, it still comes with risk.
Like, I know a lot of content creators
because I'm in the content creation field
so you meet other content creators
who have been burned by the system a little bit
where you have people that don't agree with the viewpoint
and they attack them and then the content creator
takes it personally.
And that is the negative effects of it.
Like, you putting your ideas out there to be scrutinized
and not everybody will agree with you.
So it's not a free lunch, it's what I'm trying to say.
Like, it doesn't come without the cost,
but I would say the advantages of putting yourself out there
is so much bigger than the disadvantages.
I was showing you before the call to the insane plan
I had for content this year.
A lot of that is due to the fact that like,
I felt like I was behind mentally
and over the last five years I've been trying to catch up.
I started doing interviews in 2020.
And ever since then, my attention was split
between interviews and solo content,
both of them were useful.
Solo content was better for SEO,
interviews are better for networking
and for just creating clips too.
Like this video is probably going to create like 30 clips
and that's going to generate a ton of views.
This channel that you're on right now
got 390,000 views in the last year.
Roughly, and thank you.
But it's only like 300 subscribers.
It's not a huge channel.
And what the thing is,
it's because a lot of those clips really got a lot of attention
and there was a lot of quantity behind it
and the quality of the guests like you coming on
made the quality of those clips better.
And so you already have some blog posts,
like on medium and stuff like that and sub-stack.
And then on top of that, you're doing video,
since your videos are mainly just voice anyways,
you're technically doing audio,
what is your favorite kind of content to make?
I'm going to make, but first of all,
before we get to that,
I want to ask you a question.
So you said you feel you are behind compared to
other people or yourself or?
Where I wanted to be mentally,
where I projected myself to be.
Uh-huh, a little bit of attention.
So when I started university,
like I came from a small-ish town
and I was quite a neophyte when it came to basically anything.
And when I went to university,
I started meeting very intelligence,
educated people that just knew everything about everything.
And these were some of the people that started
the vouring books since the age of three.
They would read a book a day.
And when I make these people like,
Oh, shit, I'm so far behind.
And for the next three months, no, four months,
I decided to take on the Uberman Sleep Cycle,
which is the experiment that it into all.
Like my my grades definitely suffered,
but the Uberman Sleep Cycle is basically
just where you sleep less.
Way less, like you sleep a total of,
I think like four hours or something like that.
And you sleep in 30 minute increments throughout the day.
And all of this was to read more books.
So I had this long list of all the books that you should read.
So I went through the productivity books,
I went through all of the fiction books
that you had to read in order to catch up.
So I can definitely resonate with like,
you are not where you want to be,
but it's such a good motivator.
Because I didn't get a lot of information
into my head in that small period of time.
But I wouldn't recommend the Uberman Sleep Cycle
and the Uber Sleep Cycle to anybody.
Maybe if you took a little bit more of a partial approach
where you were doing like a book a day,
but still getting enough sleep or something like that,
or even half a book,
or maybe even just doing audio books
just to make it faster, something like that.
But yeah, it's interesting what you mentioned that
because that's the creative, that's the input side of things.
So my system works in an input and output kind of mindset.
I think a lot of them do, not just mine,
but it's interesting to think about the modular degree
versus the constant production.
And that's how I kind of view the input and output
and learning a whole lot
and then finding a way to put outputs.
I think that the reason why I was doing so much
with this yearly planning was because I like, okay,
I have a lot of content I wanna make that's new,
but I also have a lot of content
that's been in my backlog for years, so it's old.
And so let me just double up for a while and do a blitz,
even though I might burn out a little bit,
the blitz will help me schedule out ahead of time
that could take a break.
And that batching ahead is what's gonna help.
No, hell yeah, hell yeah.
But to get you a question,
which type of content do I enjoy the most?
I think I'll make a call back to Richard Feynman.
So I have this quote which I'm obsessed with.
It comes from, surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman.
I think that's the first book I didn't know
who Richard Feynman was.
Then one of my friends recommended
is surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman,
which is a book that he wrote.
And then I went on a Richard Feynman craze
because I don't know, just spoke to my soul.
He has a quote, notes aren't a record of my thinking,
process, they are my thinking process.
So I think writing, it has to be writing
because that's where your ideas are born.
That's where you get your wrestle with your own mind.
So I really like, I've come to really enjoy writing.
So when writers say that writing
is the most difficult thing you can do,
I don't agree with that, I've always enjoyed it.
I'm not a good writer,
but the process of writing is something
that I really enjoy.
And what I found at least in the last year,
I think I started my newsletter
at the end of last year,
and I should have started it way earlier.
But the newsletter, it acts like a dear generation engine
because every week you have to produce something.
And you're staring at that blank page
and it's like, okay, what am I gonna write about?
Like, what have I been thinking?
And you go through your entire week,
oh, I read this article, which gave me this idea
that I obviously noted it down my obsidian somewhere
because that's what it's for.
And you just started to write
very interesting thoughts and ideas out on paper.
And then that ultimately turns into longer articles
and then the articles turns into YouTube videos.
And then the YouTube video comments
and article comments gives you new ideas for new articles,
but it always starts with the writing process.
So I would say that the writing process
definitely the most fun for me.
And the video, I would say I don't really enjoy
the admin of the video side
because it feels like knowledge management 10 years ago
where you didn't have the tools to connect notes.
So if you wanted to make it work,
you had to go full Zettel Carson with different mailboxes
like a whole wall full of mailboxes
that you can sort the little cards into different categories.
The admin is just too high.
And with video, the editing process,
the admin is also still quite high.
But as we spoke about before,
we started this chat of ours.
AI tools is going to make the editing process so much easier.
So I think over time,
I think the admin costs associated with videos
going to become much less
and I might be enjoying it a little bit more
and might become a content for writing,
but I don't think it would ever surpass it.
I talk about automation on the channel a lot
and delegating editing is one thing.
But also too, there's fire cut and glean
and we've mentioned OpusClip before to call too.
There's ways of automating some of the editing process,
which is nice.
I think you and I are very much aligned where,
I'm a writer first, I like writing,
I like the concept of blogs and even too,
I hate editing as well.
So I align with you quite a bit on that.
The one reason why I asked this pillar content question
is that it's kind of a way for me like a better commentary here
to figure out like, what do you align with?
Like for me, I found you through YouTube.
I see you as a YouTuber first
and then the writer second,
that's how I came across your content.
But I'm curious to see how you identify yourself
because a lot of people saw me as a podcast or first
and then a YouTuber, then a writer.
But to me, it's the other way around.
It's a writer, a YouTuber, a podcaster.
And the way you identify as a content creator,
I think it's really important.
Also on this show, I color code the interviews on the playlist.
And so like depending on if you're a writer,
you'll be like orange-ish, yellow-ish.
If you're a YouTuber, you're reddish,
if you're podcasting your purple
and if you're kind of in between, you're more of like gray.
And so I also asked that question
just so I can know what to color you.
How to tag your system.
So I don't generally always mention that,
but I figured this was kind of a neat little moment to do.
We talk about organizations.
So he might as well start in there.
Well, and I like getting met up on this show too,
because part of his why I made this
is at the other show where I interview PolyMaths,
I would often find those PolyMaths
because they made content.
And so I found them through their content.
And so we would have 25, 30% of a conversation
talking about how they became a creator.
And I realized I really love that conversation.
I wanted to do more of those.
And also too, it'll let me connect with more cool people.
And that's why I created this show here too.
And creating content around Obsidian
is not an easy task.
I feel like even like notions a little bit easier.
With Obsidian, there's a complexity level to it.
And so I got a lot out of your journal's tutorials.
What inspired you to start making videos
on Obsidian particularly?
It's, I think it's one of my curiosities
is how to learn things quicker.
So again, it was a little bit of looking for a cheat code.
So when I was looking at the different things
in this life that I could do, there's a lot of things
that came up, like a lot of different interests,
which I want to get good at quicker.
And the first subject that I landed on
was learning how to learn.
Yeah, it's probably the first one you should learn.
It's, you would think, you would think
but I've been spending like the last three years
convincing some of my closest friends
to start using Obsidian.
And guess what?
They're still not using any of these tools.
And I keep telling them like this.
Now, more than ever, like you have basically five years
to learn how to learn.
Before, let's say you have two years to learn how to learn.
And then your life is going to get quite difficult
with all of this rapid change happening in AI.
Like it's going to disrupt a lot of different industries.
And my friends industries included in that category.
So I'm trying to convince them and they're just like,
no, they don't need it.
And one of the biggest wins that I had was a friend
that studied with me and we worked together
and she's this very corporate lady, extremely clever.
She has, she has the memory of an elephant.
Like she can remember every meeting, every detail
and just all around brilliant person,
a Richter of her big company now as well.
And she didn't need a system like this
until something happened where a little bit
of traumatic experience where she found that in meetings,
because of this traumatic experience that happened,
like she can't remember the previous meetings anymore.
And that's suddenly when there was a need that arose
where, okay, I need to do something about it.
And that's when she started with Obsidian.
And now she worked through what happened
and her memory is back to normal.
But now the skill level that she's at now
is just vastly superior.
So it's always funny to me.
People who don't need it, don't need it.
But if they use it, they would just have so much more.
So much more.
It would have so much more.
And that's why I kind of like it
because I'm the laziest person you'll ever meet.
That's kind of the...
If the job said, if you want a job done
the fastest, higher the laziest person.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm definitely that person.
So when I'm looking at things that I need to do,
I want cheat codes, so I want the easiest way to do it.
And I found that a tool like Obsidian
makes every facet of your life easier.
But there's anything you can think of this tool
if you use it in a right way,
it will make it easier.
It's, you don't come across these tools a lot in life.
But yeah, continue whatever you want to say something.
Yeah, I want to jump off of that
because we can definitely nerd out a bit of sitting here.
When I was telling you about the poly tools database
before I had over 100 different knowledge management tools.
I went and scoured the internet
to try to find the best one.
What I wanted was to do a calendar and task management
and project management all in one thing.
I think Note Plan got the closest to it,
but eventually I was able to turn Obsidian
very close to Note Plan.
I don't have Mac devices or Apple devices,
so I couldn't use Note Plan.
And I definitely wanted something local too,
because I had a lot of issues with Notion
where my old apartment ended up having internet connectivity
issues where the old wiring would disconnect
and the latency would actually kill my connection.
And then on top of that, it would actually go out
for weeks at a time, or like a week at a time,
multiple times a year, or even days at a time,
and Notion's constantly online.
This is way before the offline mode,
which still isn't even that good, came out.
And so I realized I needed to have something local
so that way I can still create content while I was offline.
And I found that Obsidian is the closest thing
you can get to the all in one system.
It still doesn't do calendar very well.
Task management is very individualized.
Everyone does things differently.
But it's very interesting to me that you could create
as much as you can in there.
And actually, as of recently,
I've been trying to find alternative data sources.
So for example, I got a very wary of Gmail training
their AI on my emails, because that was something that came up.
And so I copied all of my old emails that were important,
conversations with old guests, or conversations
with my late mentor, or late grandmother,
and copied them into Obsidians.
And now I went through Yahoo Gmail and Live,
got all my emails off of there,
and now they're referenceable in Obsidian.
Yeah, it's true.
And then on top of that, like Amazon,
where I always kind of kept my book list.
So all those different rabbit holes you were talking about earlier,
like Richard Feynman or something like that,
I would save their books into my Amazon wish list.
One day I scrolled through,
and I saw two books were missing.
They were just blank.
They were still in the list,
but there were no references as to what they were.
And I have no idea now what those books would have been.
I've forever lost to what those books would have been read.
And also Kindle stopped letting you download books to your phone.
So I was like, okay, I'm not going to use Kindle anymore.
Let me go ahead and copy all the different book names
using the book search plugin in Obsidian
to now have a reference of all the books I want to read.
I've done that now with movies,
I've done that now with video games,
so I can have my backlog,
like what do I want to watch?
What do I want to game?
And keep track of all that and keep track of progress
if I wanted to get to even to that level of tracking.
And like how it track into another thing is individualized.
There's a lot of there's a lot of plugins for that.
I'll stop rambling here.
Essentially, I was trying to put in data
from all these different sources.
What do you think about that?
I think there's a lot of things that Obsidian can't do.
So when people want to bring everything into Obsidian,
meaning they want other people's knowledge coming in.
If they are project manager,
they want to see other people's meeting notes.
And to me, it's just a personal knowledge management system
should remain personal, extremely personal.
And you should be very careful about what you bring
into the sacred realm.
Because otherwise, it feels like, at least to me,
that you're turning it into a Wikipedia.
And with a lot of people that are consultable,
they have the same problem at the beginning
where they just want as much information as possible.
I'm like, no, you're missing the points.
Think of this as a literal extension of your brain,
just like our phones are an extension of us.
When you leave your phone at home,
you feel like something is missing.
You feel like you want naked in a way.
And to me, Obsidian is so much more,
I feel more naked if I don't have Obsidian.
I would, if I have to choose between Obsidian
and my phone, I'll choose Obsidian
because it does feel like an extension of my brain.
That being said, there's always ways around it.
So I think with the new AR tools coming in,
the project and task management side of things,
that is going to be simplified quite a bit
and people are going to start bringing in more information
which I would caution them against,
meaning other people's information,
because I do see people starting to pull in the information
from the people that they are managing
or some of the people that I have meetings with.
I would say just keep everything personal
and then just pull everything else in.
What is Obsidian not good for?
I'm still with Convince at Obsidian
is good for task management.
Yeah, I just have a scratch pad for my to do list.
I'm like, I don't know, I can't do those
or pants plugins.
I think that there's a lot of people
who heavily relies on tasks.
And I'm not one of them, I think in projects.
So the getting things done methodology.
We basically says, okay, create a project
and the project is made out of sub projects
and then the sub-projects have tasks
and then you complete the project through the tasks.
For me, it's, I don't really think in tasks that way
because if I'm working on a project, I know what to do.
I just need that homepage for that project
and a cool thing which I've discovered
while playing around and trying to find
what is the natural laws of note-taking.
And I feel like I'm getting closer to it.
It feels like there's a golden ratio
of how what the proper way is
that you should do knowledge management.
It feels like I'm gravitating
and we are all gravitating towards like,
oh, this is obviously the right way to do it.
And one of those little indicators
that I'm hitting in the right direction
was the meeting and work session note.
So what we're doing now, we have a meeting.
We are sharing ideas, we're sharing thoughts.
This meeting in my obsidian is tied
to the project podcasts and under that project podcast
is podcast with polyinivator Dustin.
And if in the future I want to come back to it,
I can see the break from trails of,
oh, I had like this meeting
and then another meeting with Dustin
and then we spoke about this
and just like a general catch up.
And then if before I went to,
well, before this podcast,
I was just doing a little bit of a background check
on you, like see if there's anything of interest
like in your ideas and something that I risen it with.
And I must say there's a couple of cool ideas
that we definitely need to speak more about.
But I could see my pre-work to this podcast,
to this chat that we have in there.
And I think obsidian lends itself
well to thinking and projects.
Everything that you're doing should be a project.
Everything that comes your way,
it should fit in somewhere
and then you automatically lean towards
the producer mindset again
to go a little bit full circle
is if you just capturing things into your vault
and you're just allowing everything
and you want to use obsidian for all functionality
and you want to use it as a save it for later app
for that video that you might never watch.
You're going to produce your own mind, Mikey.
You are degrading yourself a little bit
by allowing things into this very intimate space.
While I agree with a lot of that sentiment,
a little devil's advocate here is that
you never know what's gonna last.
So I mentioned earlier in a whole Amazon wish list,
some of those books disappeared.
And there was a, you mentioned too earlier
and there was like a post that really inspired you
or like a book that really inspired you
and you wanted to go back to it and reference it.
There was a blog post that was called do epic shit
and I would reference it like every year.
Not even like as on purpose,
it would just be like,
I'm kind of feeling a little motivation.
Let me go look at this post.
And the person who made it
decided to just delete it off their website.
They deleted like 40% of their blog posts off their sites.
And I would reference this post every year
and I realized I needed to have a local copy of it.
This is actually what I'll still use a notion.
So I copied it into notion.
And that same mindset was allowing me to realize,
okay, I need to start saving pretty much every blog post
that I want to read and reference.
The same.
Yeah.
And that way I can also have a connection too.
So like your blog post that I actually have it on my
to do list still, which is funny.
I think I read halfway through it,
but I watched all your videos for the journals plugin.
I want to reference that blog post down a line again,
allowing me to connect it with maybe Danny Hatchers
or maybe Ali Doll or Thomas Franklin
have a particular mindset on the CRM
or a database and how they constructed in notion.
And I could take that notion idea
and combine it with your journal's idea
and find a new way of displaying the information.
And for example, too, Jarvis, like Ironman's Jarvis,
there's a lot of people who made GitHub repose
and some videos talking about their projects
of creating their own Jarvis.
This is even more a lot of chatbots got popular too.
And I have a reference pool now of different blog posts,
GitHub's and YouTube videos around that topic.
I created a database because the search plugin sucks
and obsidian as you know.
I think you talked about Omni Search at one point maybe.
But I created a database referencing just that Jarvis tag
and filtering just for those words.
And it came up with all 20, 25 notes that I had about Jarvis.
So there's one thing I've been playing around with the sources
specifically for the last two, three weeks,
like I finished up the obsidian base series.
And the last one was the source base
where I got so excited that obsidian base allows you
to pull in sources easily into your obsidian
with the thumbnails and the pictures.
So it's easily identifiable.
And then you can link it with the different tags.
And I was looking at it and like,
I'm just pulling in all of the things again.
But as you said, you never know what you might need in the future.
So now I'm thinking about this defense layer before obsidian.
So obsidian is all my very personal intimate space.
But I want another capturing tool or something
that allows me to at least capture ideas, articles,
YouTube videos that I might want to reuse in the future.
And this could be a different obsidian vault
or it could just be a folder in your obsidian vault
which is like random sources and you allow it to be cluttered.
But for me, if I haven't used it in a project
or I haven't taken a time to make a note
about this piece of content, I don't want it to be connected
to the notes yet because it hasn't.
It hasn't been formed yet.
Yes.
But like you said, you still want that information there
when you need it.
So I mean, I'm starting to think about like what tools
you can use and you can just use obsidian,
but I still want a defense layer.
I don't even think it's a matter of different tools.
I think you are talking about different layers.
And I think that's still kind of the right idea.
Even having a separate vault kind of complicates things too much
because jumping between vaults is annoying.
I would bring up, you might need to dig
into my modular degree concept a bit more
because that's what I was talking about before
where I created a curation.
I actually started off as a Google sheet eventually air table.
That's what brought me to notion and then eventually obsidian
actually has the best version of it
where the modular degree, I started out collecting
all the courses that I wanted to take for this degree
I wanted to create.
But eventually I started pulling in the podcast
and the videos and the articles and the books
and the audio books.
Even at one point, one of my podcast guests
even came up with the idea of tracking conversations
that you mentioned earlier.
I need to do better about that.
I don't use any meeting tools to transcribe
the meetings that I'm doing,
but I do have Riverside here that we're using right now.
And I can send you the transcript afterwards,
but I try to put the transcript into the notes
of that person too.
That allows me to have all that data there.
And in the modular degree folder,
I'm not using those for projects.
Those are just collecting the information
for what I want to learn.
If there is a post that I want to make a content about,
I usually, all of my content starts off
on like the title, right?
I usually, those are generally finalized titles.
Maybe tweak them a little bit when I actually post it.
But I'll be like, okay, top three things
for Obsidian users or whatever, right?
And then if I have your post or maybe a Reddit post
that inspired me to make that post,
I'll copy the URL and put it in the note of that content piece.
So in my content folder,
I'll have the title as a note.
And within that, I'll have the reference
to whatever blog post or video that inspired me to make it.
But that already means that it's earned its place.
If it's tied to something that you're producing,
that's a no brainer.
That's like, yes, this should definitely be there.
If you read or watch the video and is like,
oh, that's a cool idea.
And you create your own idea and you use it as a source.
And you do nothing else with it.
That source should still be there
as the golden source of truth of how you came,
how your brain works and how it makes connections.
But I do see a lot of people just using it as a dump save it
for later where they don't have those connections.
They're like, okay, maybe I like the thumbnail
and the title looks cool.
Maybe I'll come back and I have a lot of those videos
and articles about Claude code and OpenClonell,
which I'm not allowing into Marx anymore.
Like, they need to really prove that they need to be there.
So I'm using a couple of other external save it for later apps
in order to, well, the one that I'm using now,
which is working quite well is recall,
but this is a couple of things that I want the team to change.
But it has a little bit of a smarter interface.
They allow linking automatic tagging
that have like a graph interface as well.
The only drawbacks is obviously data is theirs.
And your data, well, you also need to pay a monthly amount
for it.
But to me, it doesn't really make that much of a difference
if they decide to close shop in two years
and all of my data is gone.
I don't really care that much
because the important sources would have filtered
through to my obsidian.
I'm thinking about that in a little bit more of a YouTube way.
The temporary aspect too, where you just make a temporary aggregate.
So like, there was a lot of plugins
that I really wanted to keep track of with obsidian.
Because I go into obsidians that almost every day at this point
and dig through newly updated, newly posted plugins.
And I also been digging a lot into the beta plugins
because I found some really cool ones in there.
And I try to save the GitHub repost now in my vault.
But before I just have like four.
So you want to save the...
Well, if you want to recreate that plugin
if they disappear in the future,
that you have all of the information, oh, that's clever.
And I don't think it's really saving the actual code.
It's just saving the page for it.
But at the very least, that way I can reference it later on.
And maybe go on the web archive to find it or something
like that if I have to.
But it's also a matter of tracking.
So what I had done before was just created a note
of obsidian plugins that I wanted to do.
And the top is like, here's the ones I'm actively trying.
Here's the ones I'm most interested in.
Here's the ones that are just kind of curious.
I might keep it around just in case.
Or if I have a specific need,
the type of tracking down the line, I'll use it.
And like conbond was kind of in that section too.
And now that I actually started collecting
more and more GitHub reposts, I realized,
and especially since I wanted to kind of create a view
specifically for AI plugins.
I wanted to actually maybe make a post about it
on the line where I have, there's like 60 plugins
for AI and obsidian.
And a lot of people don't realize that.
And like half of them are in the beta tab anyway.
So you don't even see them in the actual marketplace.
And so I wanted to create a database
of all the plugins, start categorizing them.
And so even though they are taking out space,
they are some of them, my name is the temporary area.
I might just delete them down the line.
I want to create a database of like prioritization,
like which ones I need to test next.
That might help my system, which ones
maybe are worth creating content about,
which ones are specifically for AI,
specifically for task management, specifically for bases,
and organize them a little bit more effectively.
So now I'm actually collecting more than I was.
I'm actually not thinking about what is the drawbacks
of having a bloated obsidian bolt
because functionality wise, it would still run perfectly
because you're not thinking and told us.
So there's no real quick thoughts
that comes in mind of what is the real drawbacks
if you just save more, rather than less.
But there's something in me that still says,
like something feels wrong about this.
And I can't put my thumb, I can't pinpoint it.
Maybe maybe it's because if you just allow everything
and you're gonna take a list K with the ones
that actually matters, maybe that's it,
but I need to be risk with this thought.
So thanks for pushing back.
Need to think a bit more.
I think there's also just a minor pushback
before we move on to like the journey's plugin.
I think that's what it's called or something like that.
Or there's a couple AI plugins that do it
like a semantic journey where they basically link together
different nodes that have similar tags or similar topics.
And again, I wouldn't want to use like check TVT or AI
to really do that, but down the line,
I might find a plugin that does it
just by a semantic search, it doesn't actually do AI.
Or maybe you can use like Cloud MD4 or something like that,
where you can just basically track different topics
and have a journey through your own vault.
But you can't do that as well or as much
if you don't have enough notes
to actually create that journey in the first place.
Yeah, it's fun to keep future possible use cases
in mind as well.
So like the way you're thinking.
How does your Obsidian workflow impact your content?
Because we talked about that a little bit,
like if you have obviously a really great idea,
but what do you think?
My Obsidian workflow.
I follow a daily notes first methodology.
So every day I have a daily note,
which is basically like the main adventure of the day.
And then I see every time when I do something,
like let's say I go to the gym or I have a meeting
or I have a podcast with you,
that's a little bit of a side adventure that I go on.
So then I'll go to that note
and that's where I live for the next hour.
And then once that is done, I process the meeting
and then I go back to my daily notes
and then I ask, what's next?
So throughout the day,
I'll come across interesting things.
And I guess that's also why I love Obsidian this much
is because in the past,
before I started using this,
I tried all of the different applications
and like a long time I tried motion
when I have a cool idea.
It's like, oh, this is my $1,000,000 business idea
and you write it down somewhere.
And then 10 years later,
you come back to that low shitty page that you wrote
and it was never seen again.
With Obsidian, all of my ideas,
if I put it into my system,
I know that it will be retrieved soon or later.
There's so many ways for serendipity to show its face
where something just comes,
you might be searching for Dustin
and then there's another Dustin in your vault
that was a guy that went to high school with you
and was like, oh, I haven't spoken to that person in a while.
You go to his notes and you can see
like I could have lost my spoke was like two years ago.
We spoke about this and then you can
rekindle with them base of information that you have.
This is so many ways for information to retrieve itself
which you show itself.
But throughout the day, I take different ideas.
I have article ideas, video ideas
and I log it into my Obsidian.
And then when I have the energy,
that's when I sit down and go to my content creation page
and I just see what past me have served up for praise into me.
And it just feels like less effort.
I imagine in the past the way people would have to do something
like those like writing, for instance,
it felt like they always started at zero baseline,
like at the lowest point.
And then you had to have so much activation energy
in order to get started.
But with Obsidian, it's so easy.
All your ideas is there.
Like I always have way more ideas
than I have time to execute on them.
The only problem is just finding the motivation
on a specific day to sit down
and just start with any of the ideas that I have.
So I think the content production is then.
Yeah, you definitely have a high quality, I would say, threshold.
And I want to also just kind of quickly mention,
you should definitely consider doing some batching
in the future too, if you can,
where you just create like a seven video series
that are 15 minutes long each or something like that.
You just do it all in one weekend,
maybe like a few days later, edit them all.
And then schedule them out over the next seven weeks.
So now you could have a consistency factor
without having the pressure of having to make a video.
And that might make it easier for you to focus
on the more detailed heavy videos that you need to work on
that are just basically addition.
So I try to have that baseline of content that goes out.
And then every time I come up with a new idea
or there's some news that's happening,
like a new plugin that's really cool.
Speaking of which, I keep thinking about it
during our conversation.
I want to make sure I mentioned it.
There's a plugin, it's a tangent.
It's called Sync in Bed.
And it actually took my journal's database to another level
where I had this idea of I wanted to embed the quarterly notes
within my yearly notes.
And it allowed me, if you could do embeds naturally
in Obsidian, but it's one way, it's only available.
This allows you to edit those quarterly notes
within the yearly notes.
So you could do that macro planning ahead of time.
And I wanted to do the same thing for weekly and daily notes,
all the daily notes within the weekly note.
It's still manual, yet to go in there
and add in the links for each quarter or each day.
But I find myself not doing daily notes very well,
very often.
And I don't do weekly notes at all.
I do decently well now with the yearly
and I'm getting better at quarterly.
And monthly notes are probably my best
because I actually created into a content series
which we can talk about too.
But my point is, I need to do daily notes better.
And I'm actually asking you,
how can I do better about doing that?
Well, if you want to, well, first of all,
I'd want to know about the batching.
The, how would you approach this?
It would be, you have a topic that you have,
like let's say, 10 different chapters
that you can break this topic into.
And then you just record along videos,
that's how you do it.
I also tend to make a lot of my,
I'm thinking about my creator channel,
first and foremost, right here,
where I had a series about how to be a modern content creator.
I also had a series about my creator equation,
which was something I came up with to expedite creator growth.
And both of which had a lot of sub topics
that needed to be discussed individually.
So I created like 14 or six videos each.
And each one of them also had a blog post corresponding to it.
And so I created those ahead of time
and then scheduled them out once a week
for the next month or two.
And it allowed me to not only be consistent,
it was also something that could easily create
all in one go because it was the same topic.
And then on top of that,
I created a super cut at the end.
So in case somebody wanted to watch it all at once,
it also helps with YouTube watch time too.
And that's another video you can
didn't have on top of that.
And I also turned all of them into podcasts too
because it's might as well.
Oh, that is so clever.
Because I've always been struggling with
if I sit down in order to produce a YouTube video,
it normally takes like two, three, four days, maybe even longer.
But before that, when you're actually sitting down
and recording the wrestling with your own mind,
that is the difficult part where you want to structure,
okay, how would you going back to fun?
Like how do you teach it to somebody
in the most simplistic way that you possibly can?
Yeah.
And that's the part where it has a lot of friction,
where you have the idea,
and you know what you want to say,
but now you need to figure out a good way to explain it
and an easy way to explain it.
And put yourself into the shoes of somebody
that haven't been playing around with these tools
for the last four years, for 24 hours in a day.
And once I record and I have something close to finish,
I just want to immediately publish
because I'm always there.
I want to publish it now, but listening to the batching process,
I do think I'll challenge myself.
I'll let you know how it goes.
It's not necessarily one or the other.
The reason why I do it, like I said, is for that foundation.
The quality can be lower,
because essentially the point is more of the value
of what that series offers and the continuation of it
and people coming back.
And it's also a matter of appeasing YouTube
with your consistency factor.
And then you can still do your higher quality videos
or more specific topics in addition to that.
And you're basically just spending a weekend
doing the sprint of posts.
And then from there, you can spend the rest of your weeks
doing the regular content that you don't really do.
You don't have to worry about being consistent.
That's awesome advice, Dustin.
Thank you.
So to answer your question, how to start daily notes,
what do you want to start daily notes?
This is my question, Gene.
The daily notes for me is a matter of keeping track
of what's going on in my life.
And I don't even do very good habit tracking as of right now.
And I feel like I won't until I start doing daily notes.
But on top of that, I want to start keeping track of my emotions,
my thoughts, what's happening those days,
because it's good to have that data down the line.
I even have a formula now for data view on my database.
I think I might have gotten it from you, perhaps,
or someone similar to you, where on my daily note,
it'll pull up any previous days of like that same day
of the previous year.
And that allows me to kind of reference back,
what was I doing a year ago, or five years ago,
at the same day.
And I think that that helps to,
like when I'm doing yearly notes,
it's good to reference my monthly notes
and know like, okay, what happened this year?
I've been to how you do those yearly notes too,
but I have a preview and a review portion of those daily notes.
And I'm reviewing what happened the last year.
And then like later on, I'll be planning what happens next year.
Like what did I do right?
What I do wrong before?
What can I do better the next year?
And I reference the other notes.
And the same thing happens with like,
weekly planning, or maybe like monthly notes or something like that.
Like what happens last month?
I can go through my daily notes and figure out.
Yes, okay.
So you do want the data,
but there's something stopping you from actually putting in the data.
And that's the hurdle.
That's the strain that is the cost.
And I think with AR tools coming into the play,
the hurdle of capturing information is so much lower.
Even if you just put at the end of the day,
you just have a voice note that you put on your daily notes.
We say, you know what, this is what I was struggling with.
This is what I did.
This is what I felt good about.
Even just that will give you a much more fun year in review experience.
So for me, I have found through talking to a lot of people
that I have more energy to give towards my daily notes than most.
Most people feel at least up until last year
felt that it's too much effort to put in three pictures,
to give your day a rating, to rate your sleep, to put in your sleep hours,
and to write down the food that you ate,
and then give an in-off day review.
Like most people feel that friction is just still too high.
And I tried to explain to people that listen,
the payoff that you get from this,
just filling in that data is significant.
Because at the end of the year, my yearly review is such a pleasant
experience.
It is so fun to do because I have one big base table
that have 365 rows for each day,
which I can see these were my best days,
these were my worst days.
I can see the summary of the day,
and then I can see three pictures.
And we know that a picture is worth a thousand words.
So you immediately relive every specific day,
and what I've done is worth the journaling setup.
You break it down per week and per month.
So I'll base that three tables.
The first one is the year by days.
The second one is the year by weeks,
and the third one is the year by months.
And from a weekly review at the end of every week,
I have the script that runs,
and up until likely I did it myself, I did manually,
and that's what people didn't want to do it,
because it's still too much effort.
But now it's automated.
What I would do is I would pick the three best images of that week,
and I would put in my waiting list.
I would write a short summary,
and I would put in my waiting notes,
and I would average my daily scores to give the weekly score.
And when you get to the end of the year,
when you fold in all of that data,
with bases, it is now so much fun,
because you can fold to the base to see,
well, give me all of my worst days.
And you can go through it,
and you can look at the pictures like,
okay, the worst days was when I had to go into the office.
I had to go with my day job.
I had to travel in commutes,
and I had to sit in useless meetings for three, four hours a day.
Maybe I should do less of that.
Okay, what was my best days?
My best days was when I was doing something
completely brand new novel experience
that I've never done before.
First, I'm going snowboarding, rollerblading,
making a new dish, meeting a new friend,
like going to an experience of those other days that stood out.
It was either experience new novel experiences,
or socializing with friends,
or achieving something where it's in sport, or in my business.
And that gives you an idea of how you can lead a more enjoyable life.
So before I've started to use these tools and the daily note,
I don't really have a view on what makes me happy.
And I don't think a lot of people have that view.
Nobody have taken the time to understand themselves,
and I feel the daily note is a way to understand yourself.
It's a way to get more familiar with who you are,
because as it's Steve Jobs,
it said you can't connect the dots looking forward
or something like that.
It's the same thing.
You can only make sense of yourself
if you have something to look back on.
And that is what the daily note is.
It's so much more than just filling in information
and having statistics.
You have a trail, it's past you screaming at you,
like, hey, we want more of this,
this is what makes us happy.
And if you don't have this, I think last year, two years ago,
went to Sri Lanka with a couple of friends.
And one of my friends, he always does this compass year review,
which is a website where they have this PDF file
that have 10 pages of questions
in order for you to do your yearly review.
And the process is normally like, go through your phone,
look at all your pictures, look at your calendars,
week by week, and then break it down,
write down what made you happy,
what do you want to do less of?
What stood out?
And then you have your year review.
Now, that's a very cumbersome process.
And we were about 10 sitting in a villa,
and we were all very excited to start with this process
of doing our yearly review.
And while I was looking at us starting,
I saw everybody's world to do this.
And excitement factor, you can see
everybody was excited to it.
They had a lot of energy.
And something in me told me that 10 minutes later,
it's just going to be me and the original friend
who recommended this process is going to be left.
And that is what happened.
There's this people that authored 10 minutes,
it's like, okay, this is too much effort.
It's too much effort to review my life in the past year.
And it's too much effort to lead my life
in a better direction.
Like, that's what I saw.
And with the daily notes, you just simplify everything.
And the captioning process now is,
it's tremendously simple.
Like, there's no excuse that hurdle isn't day anymore.
It seems like you gained that momentum
and that the yearly reflection,
even like quarterly monthly reflection,
helped motivate you to do it farther.
And one thing I'm seeing too in our conversation
is that like, you've definitely got
an higher skill in the reflection process.
And I feel like I've definitely got
an higher skill in the planning process.
We kind of have that duality here.
Definitely.
I need to learn more about your planning mechanism.
We can exchange.
Yeah.
We're talking about like, okay, you're great at reviewing.
I'm great at planning.
How can we bridge that gap there, D?
Well, I'm guessing a couple of sessions
where it's like, yes, like use case.
Yeah.
Well, all you need is like, for the daily journaling,
it's basically just, you need to find a way
to keep yourself responsible with it.
It's an accountability partner where you say,
like, have you full it in?
Or at the end of the week or the end of the month,
like, have you full this in?
For my side of the producing,
I think that's a little bit more difficult
because that, that's,
well, I'm guessing that's also just having
a accountability partner.
The way that I do it in the past,
like, if I feel you don't have this problem,
but the way that I make sure that I produce something
is I wait for a spur of motivation,
you know, like when you sometimes just feel
like you have the energy to do something very difficult.
And while I'm in that state, I lock in that energy
and I message your friends saying,
listen, I want to produce a YouTube video
by the end of this week Saturday.
If I don't, I need to give you 250 euros.
And I've been doing it quite a bit
where I know that I can produce an article in a day.
So every week there's about two times
when I would message a friend and say,
listen, this is public.
If this is not out, I need to give you 250 euros.
And if it's a big thing, like a big project,
like the base videos took quite some time to create,
I would message two friends
and there would be five or a zero, so I would do two.
And I haven't paid them once,
but it's quite nice to have,
you basically give, hand them the responsibility of like,
listen, are you done yet?
Am I going to get my money?
It's like it's, you force that obligation
on somebody else to check in on you, which is quite nice.
And I'm the guy on you.
Well, the daily publishing.
I don't think I have that much money yet.
This is during 50 euros per day.
The daily stuff for me, like I said,
it was more of this catching up.
And I also have multiple series.
And so that context switching allows me to kind of keep
that momentum going because if I'm burned out
on the creator brand, I can go work on the obsidian
and polymathy stuff.
Or if I'm burned out on that, I can make a gaming stuff.
I also have some sub brands that are,
I've talked so many for over decades.
I can make this so many stuff.
I love travel and EDC and like one bagging.
And so I have a travel kind of sub brand too.
And so it's just one of those things
where like that context switching helps a little bit.
There's something that I'm curious about.
It's like you've made a lot of content
about obsidian in a lot of different ways.
Is there something you haven't made content about
that you want to?
Oh, that's a, there's a lot of things
that I want to make content about.
So me and a friend of mine, we both like cooking.
So we like making food.
And I gave this idea like last years,
like hey, we should just start a cooking channel
so that we can expense claim all of the cool
kitchen equipment that we want to buy in any case.
It's like I know how to make money
from YouTube videos now.
So we might as well,
might as well just start a cooking channel.
And then you have the socialization,
you have the business elements
and then you get free supplies of whatever you buy
because even the food that you're making
can be expense claimed from texts.
So I think content wise,
like if you want to go completely
off the rails away from obsidian,
I think that's in the books for later this year.
I do like music.
So I think I would have like a faceless channel there as well
where I'm just like playing stuff
to keep myself more comfortable to learn
guitar and piano, to learn to play it a little bit better
from obsidian topics.
There's a lot of things that I am working on.
One of them is obsidian for writers.
We spoke earlier about the how producing things
it draws people to you,
similar people, people with similar interests.
And one of the people that got drawn to me was
a writer in America that is extremely knowledgeable
in the whole writing process, like fantasy writing.
He have done a deep dive into all of the fantasy,
the fantasy and just writing, I don't know,
writing theories, writing methodologies.
It's one of the most,
I didn't know writing was this complicated,
but we've spent the last six months.
We've gone through all of the theory
that there is related to like,
oh, here's main character, side characters.
What is locations?
Okay, you need to think about this
and the nearest journey,
but then you have this like three-point story structure,
four-point story structure, all of this,
which he was basically teaching me
so that I can build it out in obsidian.
So this has been a six-month project,
and the vault is ready and going to release it quite soon,
so I'm gonna be making a lot of writing content on it as well.
I think in the future it's going to be mainly my content,
would be mainly around obsidian with these AI tools
for the different use cases.
So the use cases that I have up until now
is work for what color workers,
because that's what I've been doing for the last nine years
of my life up until the end of last year.
So people in companies,
where they have a lot of meetings,
a lot of different projects, so okay,
we found a way to make that easy.
The first thing I probably use it for was journaling.
So the daily two-yearly notes roll up,
like that was at the use case.
Now we have writing, studying is still something
I want to concentrate a little bit more on.
So I think that covers most of the things
that I want to touch on,
but I do want to make more content on just the hobbies
that I enjoy, so cooking, music.
You also probably have a lot of different interests
that you want better at.
So for me, I always had this idea of,
I want to be just above average at a lot of things.
Yeah, the journals level as I would say.
Say again?
So I have a scale of being multidisciplinary
and you have like multipsentialite,
jack-of-a-trades, generalist, and polymaths.
You're better than average.
You'd be like around that generalist level.
Oh, yeah.
So for that, I don't mind being the best guitarist
in the world.
I don't mind being the best singer,
but I do want to be just above average.
Like I want to be able to,
to, to, to a neo-fi,
somebody that's completely new to a specific topic.
Like let's say I could take guitar.
If I were to play for them,
they're just like, oh, this person can play guitar,
but it's just smoke and mirrors.
And now I'm enjoying himself.
And now I can move on to the next thing.
It's like, okay, how do I juggle with four balls?
Learn this skill, then I have it forever.
It's like, okay, mentalism.
Let's go into mentalism for six months.
So there's a lot of things that I want to get to,
but I feel like I need to get this business thing
really figured out.
Yeah.
And it's getting there,
but basically laying the ground works now.
So you, you know the process.
Like it's a lot of work that goes into creating content
like this.
In order to make a career out of this.
Yeah, once it's the easiest,
but it's definitely one of the most fulfilling
because you get to choose what you want to do.
Yeah, choose your own adventure.
And so I like about it.
Oh, yeah.
There's a few more questions before we end up wrapping up here,
but one thing I want to bring up to you is like,
something I talk about with the Pauline Matthews stuff
and even with knowledge management is phases.
And the phases sound sequential
and they can't be serialized like one after the other.
But I also sometimes juggle phases too,
especially when they have multiple interests
that I want to do at the same time.
And that's how it's kind of like you have phases
then projects and goals within tasks.
So that's the structure of it.
And I think that like having that bigger macro phases
pick the point of view allows you to structure
your yearly and quarterly layers a lot more effectively.
And there's something else I wanted to mention too
is like decade notes.
No one talks about that.
I think that doing decade notes is really cool.
Yes, yes, tell me more about the decade notes
because I did read some of your content on it
and something in it.
I have much.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't have much about it.
And it's a new concept.
And that's why I kind of wanted to bring up to you too.
It's one of those things where like you know
how we do weekly combinations of all the different days.
And then we have months with different weeks.
And then you have the quarters with different months
and then the years with different quarters
and then the years with different months.
I think that having the decade of different years
is also very helpful.
And the motivation for me, again, was kind of content.
I want to write an autobiography as some points.
And I need to have the data and like your memory
is not going to be strong enough when you're 80 years old
to remember what happened when you're in your 20s.
And so while that's another reason why
just doing yearly notes and monthly notes and daily notes
is so important.
But I've been doing a now page updates, I call it
because their exhibitors, the author,
came up with the now page.
So it's like you're about page
but a separate page on your site.
What's going on?
What's happening now in your life?
And I turned that into a series.
Because after a couple of months, I realized
I wanted to have that historical context.
So I had this like now page blog series that I was doing.
So every month I make a blog.
And quickly I turned it into a blog as well.
So now I have this monthly context
that I've been doing for the last like three years
where professionally and personally
what's going on in my life.
I just tell the public, I mean, I keep something private.
But for the most part, that is my monthly note.
And now when I do yearly notes or even decade notes,
I can reference those monthly blogs and blogs.
I think it's so cool.
So when I was playing around with medium subs
that I called up these different like article websites,
my first idea to get closely like this newsletter
type of thing was every two weeks
I'm going to publish an article which is almost like this.
It's like, OK, here's what I'm working on.
Here's what I'm finding interesting.
This is what I'm cooking this week.
This is a nice podcast or song that I'm listening to.
And whenever I look back at my content,
those four, I think four articles within that fashion
that I have on medium and subs day,
they're the most fun to look back on.
Because it just gives you this little window
into a past you again, which is like, oh, I'd
remember watching this series.
I remember listening to this music
and you just have to look at this flood of memories coming back.
So you kind of make me want to do something similar.
Because it's a null page blog.
I'm going to get 15 hours.
I'm going to follow suit.
Because I do make doing that.
Gary Vee is a famous content creator and business man
who talks about a lot of stuff in this realm.
And when he talked about a lot in the popularized,
a lot of creators was documents over creating.
And essentially, just documenting what you're doing.
And that's what started my YouTube channel too.
I was trying to document my modular degree,
do it yourself degree thing.
Eventually, I pivoted to like how to do your own degree too.
But doing that monthly vlog is my documentation.
I also do a quarterly tech stack post
where I talk about what tools am I using as a content creator.
And then like I thought about doing a quarterly null page
and a yearly null page.
And I kind of do that with the yearly where I'm like,
hey, once a year, I talk about the yearly notes
and like the way I'm doing it.
I haven't really done like a monthly vlog
on the yearly scale per se.
I haven't really done that yet.
Because that's a lot of work to be doing like a quarterly
and yearly one.
But I think it's kind of cool to kind of have that scale
or every quarter you're doing some kind of post.
And every year you're doing some kind of post.
Like an anniversary.
Yeah, well, what else would you put in that note?
For me, I would think about, okay, let's broaden out
to like what is my biggest win for this quarter,
this year or this decade.
So what else would you want to put in it?
Meaning what else would AT-year-old you find interesting?
Yeah, I think I guess the best thing for me to do
and we can do this maybe after the call
or maybe the next call we do,
let's go through our templates a little bit.
I'll just look at my notes here.
Like on my daily notes, I have the like the morning tasks
and then end of day.
But when you get to like weekly,
it's kind of taken into account all the different days.
And I want to do some sort of like weekly planning,
like weekly goals and tasks,
and then like a weekly review.
So like I have the days in between those.
But then once you get to like monthly and quarterly,
that's when things get a lot more interesting.
So the monthly note, I have a private part
where it's goals, tasks and weekly overview
and I go through each week and a monthly review.
And then I have my now page.
So I have the private and then the public part.
And with quarterly too, it gets even more interesting as well,
where you have month one, month two, month three.
And I try to go for this 12 week year,
which is a book that was pretty popular.
And then I have for me, quarterly is about alignment.
Like are you aligned with like are the actions
you're taking aligned with your goals and values
of you as a person.
So I have EQ guy as one of the alignment,
but I also have my own personal four pillars,
the mind, body, spirit and emotions.
And those are the ones that I talk about on the other channel.
It's like self development and learning and spiritual alignment
and like maybe like meditation or something like that.
And then you also have like habit check
and personal brand review, content and journal check.
And that's what I do on my quarterly ones.
And then yearly is even more complicated.
You have like the preview,
planning, manifestation for the future.
What's the ideal theme?
What's the goals you want to accomplish?
Big projects and then what phase,
like I mentioned earlier, what phase are you in?
And then I have like, what happened this year?
And that's just when I just write out a full-on like book
essentially of like, what can I remember at this year?
Ideally, I would do that maybe every quarter,
like go in every quarter and do like a big chunks.
It's more fresh, but I tend to end up doing it
at the end of the year.
And then I do like a review of the year.
What am I grateful for?
What's my quarterly planning?
Monthly planning look like,
which are just links to the different notes.
And that's when I do like the quarterly stuff
and the vision of the future.
It's so interesting to me that we think
in completely different ways.
And how do you do that?
Because I think from the daily note up, so I'm granular.
And when we get to the quarterly notes
and the yearly paying notes, I don't,
well, the yearly, I just do the review,
but I don't really do the planning.
All my stuff comes, they filter up from the daily notes.
And it's interesting to me that people prefer,
it's like, no, I want a quarterly review.
It's like, but why?
Why would you want like that?
I, for me, it doesn't, it doesn't immediately make sense.
And I have tried the quarterly reviews and like alignment,
but it just doesn't stick for me.
But for other people, it's like they preach for it.
I don't do great with the reviews.
I should be better with it.
But I should mention to like quarterly is more philosophical.
It's the monthly and yearly that are more practical.
And I think that the reviews are kind of easy
because it's just like writing what happens.
It's the planning where it's like, I also think that sometimes
it's a matter of the databases.
And so like the planning is just like putting down
the goals and the goals database, putting on the projects
and the projects database.
And that's kind of what that is for.
The areas that you spoke about, mind, body, spirit and emotions
and emotions, emotional intelligence is important.
Yeah, so last year when I was, I had a couple of consulting
clients, like a lot of them consulting clients,
where we were trying to map the whole life out on paper.
And I found it most valuable because I didn't think a lot
of people have done this exercise before where you just
sit down in front of a big white board.
And you really just try to get all your responsibilities,
all the things that you think about out on this white board,
everything, your obligations towards your spouse or your friends
or your family, your house related things and texts
that you need to do and sports that you're interested in,
everything to get it out on paper in such a freeing exercise.
And I've done this a couple of times now where I basically
have to walk people through the entire life and help them
just to, to work for them at everything else so that we
can organize their life in obsidian, because that's what it's for.
And I came on the different life areas and the ones that stuck,
they say, normally, normally you would have between five and 10
areas, depending on your individual life.
For me, it's health, wealth, career, social, leisure and environment.
I think I'm missing one, but yeah, that gives you the general idea.
And how I fit my mind, everything should fit within one
of those buckets.
So for you, you have a more concise bucket list,
you have four bucket list and everything.
Technically, it's eight.
So the Eekie guy, like the Eekie guy is like your vocation.
What are you good at?
What do you bring to the world?
I have all four.
I have the like the personal one that you have like the outside one.
OK, OK, OK, that makes sense.
That makes sense.
So it's just different frameworks of trying to map everything
out paper.
And I wouldn't, but it's so cool that we're dynamic.
I think it's so interesting, but I wouldn't encourage everybody to just take one
day, take a Sunday.
We're set today.
Go set at your favorite cafe and just take a big piece of paper.
And then you just try to write everything on like splurge, vomit,
everything out on paper and just notice how you feel.
Then the next step is obviously cool.
You've thought about everything.
How do you make all of this easier?
That's where Obsidian comes in.
Technically, the decade notes too, it makes me think like people overestimate
what they can do in a year, but they underestimate what they can do in a decade.
And I think that decade notes are good for that kind of planning too.
Like I'm not doing that yet.
I'm not saying I've never doing that.
But it's kind of where my mind went where it's like if you could think about it
in that scale where it's like, OK, what could I do in a decade?
And then how could I break that up into different years?
And then the whole 12 year concept kind of breaks it down even farther
where it's like, if you can get this project done in a year, what's stopping you
from getting it done in a quarter?
And even if it takes you four months, more than a quarter, that's still
shorter than a year and you can get even more done that year.
And anything else that you do in that year is now extra
because you got that major thing done.
And so now you can have even more going on.
That's kind of also the same motivation for me, but the daily content
where I had that foundation layer.
And anything else I could read on top of that is now extra.
And then like you said earlier, Nicole, accelerate the growth.
What you afraid of Parkinson's law, meaning you are being so productive,
you're producing so much content.
And then you find ways to reduce it quicker, which creates more time.
And you feel we need to fill it up because I've been seeing a lot of people also,
people that I'm consulting for working in finance or in corporates, which
they have so much going on.
And then I help them bolt their own system with these AR tools that free up
basically all of their time, all of the items of a gun.
And when I speak to them a week later, they're just as busy.
So is this a continuous rat race where we're just looking to fill our time?
So that's what I'm scared of.
Like I don't maybe maybe I don't need to get more productive.
I don't know if necessarily more productive is what you need.
I think that you just need to get more like skilled at it.
Like I think you're already producing great content,
which is what brought me to your channel and what maybe want to invite you on the show.
Like your quality is already there.
But what I talk about on the creator channel that we're on is the acceleration
of your skill set.
Like you talk about editing so annoying, but there's certain skills with editing
that accelerate it.
For example, I used to eventually resolve for my videos, the speeding up in the
video, I didn't realize that shift L puts it up to X speed, which means made a huge difference.
And it's six months without knowing that you can't do it.
I did like three years without knowing that.
And then on top of that, there's also a hot key that I always change when I
installed them into your resolve, where it's the slice tool.
The slice is all the bars all the way down all the time.
And that was also something you have to specifically go in there.
So I press S keyboard and the slice is the whole thing.
That was a change that I had to learn.
And again, there are also like fire cut and glean and using AI editors and so
like that can also help, but just putting enough reps in like once you get to
100 videos, your skill level is going to be a lot different than you even realize.
I look back on some of my first videos, even to 100 videos ago.
And I'm like, man, I could have done a way better.
Yeah, with the editing, it's like I'm also getting at the point now.
Well, a year ago, I got into the point where I'm like, okay, I know exactly
how long it would take to edit something.
So yeah, we're definitely getting there, especially with the admin AI
solutions that we have.
But I did have another question for you.
You mentioned that you want to estimate what you can do in 10 years.
So what do you want to do in 10 years?
Well, bye.
I want to move to Singapore.
I want to finish at least half a dozen different books.
I want to produce a ton of content, start speaking on stages and perhaps
start making music at some point within the next decade.
Clear goal.
You thought I'm kind of surprised how clear it was.
I'm thinking like that question for me is I don't have this idea of absolutely no
idea.
So I think, well, the last three years, I was basically building up to quit my job
and do this full time.
And I keep on hearing people talk about, you need to appreciate the journey while
you're in it.
And I'm really trying to like, okay, this is the time that I'm going to look back
and it's going to be like, oh, oh, yeah, that was fun.
I'm really having a lot of fun where I think about 10 years, I have no idea
where I want to be.
You're more present right now, though.
And that's probably okay.
I think just for example, I joined TikTok when it was still musicly, partially
doing the Gary Vee kind of screaming at the top of his lungs.
You should join this platform.
And back then, everyone saw it as a comedy, dancing, lip singing platform.
But I saw the potential of it being like a video place like YouTube, even way back
then I started making short form videos from scratch on there.
Now I use opus just to make clips, but I was doing it from scratch and learning
how to those skills.
And I'm telling you, pre-COVID TikTok was a jam.
Everyone was having a blast doing duets.
If you had a crush on somebody, you would do a duet with them over and over again.
I saw people get married because of that.
And it's crazy to me.
Like from 2018 to 2021 summertime, I think, was like the best years of TikTok.
And I look back on those times, like I had a lot of fun making those videos
in those experiments and explorated meeting people.
And yeah, it's fun to think about where you want to be.
And then also try to appreciate where you're now.
So yeah, try to appreciate love a little bit more while you're in it.
While you're in the thick of it.
And I think what you're doing now is while you obviously learning a lot of different things.
Like you have a nice skill set that you're building up here, so I mean,
when your content creates it, there's a lot of things which gets forced upon you.
Like we don't dream about, oh, how do you record?
How do you edit videos?
What would lead to better engagements?
How do better speaker work?
It has, it has fun benefits attached to it and skills that you get to burn,
that you get to build along the way.
So yeah.
And I think a lot of these skills have compounded a lot too, which is nice.
And I got to meet a lot of my heroes and people I looked up to because of these videos and stuff like that.
Right.
We talked about obsidian as like our major tool.
But what tools do you use for content creation and or repurposing?
What do you mean by repurposing, is it?
So like opus clip is a repurposing tool.
It takes your long form, turns it into short form.
You mentioned a automation creator before our call who takes their content and uses tools to auto-generate things.
But you probably also are, that person's probably also taking tools and making them with tweets and stuff like that.
Like a long post.
Yeah, I think some stack, for example, makes clips, I don't know, pictures of your blog posts, for example.
And that's repurposing.
Yeah, I think that's still a part of my business that I need to optimize a little bit more.
The repurposing.
You know who to call.
I'll, we will definitely have a little bit more chats.
There's a couple of people that I know that's interested in the technology side of the repurposing and marketing for me.
I don't really enjoy the motting side of things.
Again, through the contents that I publish, I meet interesting people like yourself.
And weren't the people I gel really well with?
And this guy, he's a, he's a products developer.
And his skillset is vastly different to mine.
So he thinks about the customer journey.
He thinks about how a product should look like the, the, the go-to market strategy, like the advertising of it, the marketing, the,
all of those things that I don't really care about for me, the most entertaining thing is think of different use cases in obsidian,
how it could make my life easier, and how I could learn things that I find interesting quicker.
So now I'm pairing up with people that have the skills that I don't have to do, that's that part of it.
But up until now, I would just say my, the tools that I use for editing, it's a Camtasia.
Okay.
And 48.
So it made the editing process quite quick, but I'm switching now to basically building my own tools.
So I spoke about a lady called I versus AI on YouTube.
And please go check out because she makes some really useful content on the topic of obsidian and AI integration.
And what she's doing is she's using these packages and basically building her own applications to
edit the entire videos and then create shorts and then put in visuals on top of your video or automatically.
You just go through the process once you iterate and then you just have it for all future videos.
So I think that's where I'm heading.
I really like building, playing around, tinkering with something that I can build myself and see,
okay, I'm manageable this with these AR tools where it can go look at the video.
It can detect the filler words that I use and automatically take it out.
And I can see the path in script.
That to me, that excites me.
I would say OpusClip, Riverside and Descript can already do a lot of that.
Where like when I run these videos, I actually run it twice to I do our horizontal one.
I might have to do our different instances as a faceless one.
I'm going to do you a visualizer.
But normally if it's side by side, I would run us horizontally and get a YouTube video.
And I'll actually reframe it vertically to get like a nice high resolution version of our background and stuff like that.
And I'll actually export it as 4k, which helps with the referencing side of things.
But on top of that, I'll actually be a little bit more aggressive with the cutting.
So there's AI features in Riverside's editor that can cut out the ups and us and cut out the pauses.
It can even, it's the editor one that cuts out the filler.
So like earlier in the middle of our call, I'm going to edit this out, but I went to the bathroom and like Riverside will detect that and cut it out for you or ask you to cut it out.
And then on top of that, it can do magic audio enhancing the quality of our speaking, which granted my voice today.
I'm definitely going to need.
And it's like, I will actually be a little bit more aggressive with the cuts and the pauses on the vertical one.
So I'm going to consider the opus, which also does the same thing.
So anything that Riverside doesn't get opus global fill out the rest.
And that way the clips are even more fast cuts when I'm doing the actual purpose factor.
Can I tell you something funny?
Yeah.
So with Camtasia, they have a, a site program called Audiate, which is basically the audio editing version of Camtasia.
So you record a video and when you're editing, you open it up in Camtasia.
So then you can do all of the cutting and pacing and like moving things around.
But then if you want to enhance the audio, you open up audio, Audiate, which is linked to Camtasia.
And it also has that auto-remove fellow word features, all of those up things.
And what's good about Riverside?
Sorry?
It has avatars as well.
Yes.
And also, what are dubbing features?
So there's a lot of things that they do have.
But one of the features that I saw with Audiates was to change the audio file that it's fed.
One of the options was improve mail voice.
So when I started with YouTube and I saw that option like,
I'm going to have an improved mail voice.
Good evening, everyone.
Because a deeper voice gives you more authority.
Just a little tension on that.
I went to a podcasting conference a couple of different years and one of them had a guy going around with like a desk that he was hanging on himself.
And basically he would put that on you and have someone record.
And you would just get like the microphone and say like whatever kind of line you can.
It was from Amazon Music.
I think that did this.
It was like the kind of a little growth hacking thing they were trying to do.
But essentially they give you a chance to say something in your best podcast voice and win a prize.
I think it was a $60 gift card.
I won it actually.
But basically I just went up to it.
I just like, yeah, I'll do it in the world world.
Whoa.
I just did like a podcast voice or movie voice.
Was this really funny?
A couple more questions here.
What can you share your favorite story that's happened to you as a content creator?
No, we've only done it for about a year, year and a half.
But there's enough time here.
I don't I don't think I have a favorite story.
There's nothing wild that stands out.
But the favorite stories or things that I look fairly back on.
Becoming a content creator is just the people that I've met.
Like I told you about the writer guy.
I've been spending the last six months learning about writing and bullying use cases.
And I see this guy as a mentor.
So that's a person I would never have met if not for this.
And then there's a couple of other people that I'm like lifelong friends with now
that I'll be friends with till I die because of me pushing stuff out there.
So I don't think I have like a funny story.
I just want to use this this time that you have given me
and try to encourage other people to just just put something out there.
Yeah.
But it's definitely worth it.
I love that.
I'm really asking a question to you because everyone always answers it differently.
And so the last question here.
What do you have coming down the line that you're looking most forward to?
I'm really enjoying the AI integration with knowledge management.
So I live in Amsterdam.
And Amsterdam is also one of those cities that just have such a big international presence.
So my friend group are people from all over.
And I've found a couple of people here that's also interested in these AR tools.
So every week we come together and we try to obstacle ourselves to stay ahead of the code.
And I don't think this is just a trend.
Like I published my weekly news article, my weekly article, my weekly email newsletter.
There we go.
And I spoke about the the Claude integration with obsidian that makes your obsidian feel like
jolless.
It we're getting close with where you can just talk to your personal assistant,
which is Claude or any other AR tool that's looking at your obsidian belt.
And it feels like you can tell it exactly what to do and it executes it.
It feels like we're getting to that stage.
And it makes me really excited.
And I don't think this is just a face.
This is the next step of knowledge management, personal knowledge management.
And you can choose not to evolve your Pokemon.
So you can choose like as to keep Pikachu at the same level, which is obsidian.
No, we would come to like, oh, we've got to we've got to pick it.
But the next level of version, the next level of Pikachu.
What is the second version of Pikachu?
Do you know the name?
Right you.
Right to them actually.
Yeah.
Right to is the next level.
If you don't start to at least look how these tools can assist
with your knowledge management journey, relatively you would fall behind.
And for me, it's right.
I want to make my life easier.
I want to learn things quicker than almost everybody else.
Because you have the competitive advantage.
And if everybody else is doing this, it means that you also have to do it.
So it's based like a rush.
Who can get this?
So I'm really excited about integration because it's just so much fun.
It makes the whole process just so much fun.
Removes all of the admin.
The integration is really important.
And I was telling you earlier how there's like 68 I plug in some of them are local,
some of them are not.
And like probably a third of them are all clawed based anyway.
It's especially now that the CLI came out and clawed that and D came out too.
And it's interesting to me that you mentioned like the Jarvis thing.
That's that was one of my motivations.
Like I started finding automated YouTube channel.
Python scripts before chat to be T came out before all these AI has got popular.
People were doing automated channels, especially like edit videos, for example.
And I was looking into it back then.
And now more tools have come out to make it easier.
Same thing goes with the like knowledge management with having like rag and AI.
Understanding the context of your vault.
I don't want to put all my data into like a cloud AI.
I don't trust that.
There's coming out with more and more local supercomputers, which have been like the power to have a local AI.
Actually, some of them recent videos were talking about that.
Like the technology that's coming out right now that allow you to have a local LLM.
Not just having the like mark down file memory like cloud that indeed does.
But even having a complex AI conversation.
And that's another reason why I collect so much data is that I want to have more data to train my AI onto.
So that's another reason why I was so motivated to collect all to get up pages all the articles.
I have thousands of articles saved.
And I think that the more I have on there, I have books to I've saved I have.
I think Stanford has a philosophy.
Websites that you can just basically read a whole book about different philosophies, whether it's, you know, stoicism or Buddhism and stuff like that.
And I just copy the entire page and put it into my vault.
Yeah.
And I think I super fast needed to train an AI on philosophy and data data science and computer science.
And see what it can come up with and how it thinks based off of the science and philosophy together.
That's a cool novel thought.
So you create like a new obsidian vault and you just populate it with its brain.
And then you can just see what it outputs.
Oh, that's such a cool idea.
And the AI having it on your own personal device.
Yes.
I'm playing around like I'm taking a risk.
I've got an interview right here that could probably train it now a limon, but it wouldn't be fast.
I did.
I was I was an avid gamer until I moved to Europe.
And I even brought my gaming PC with me.
So it's sitting right next to me.
I haven't was shit on in the last year.
But it's top of the line, gaming PC, which I've been meaning to get all of my my air stuff installed.
So the local.
I will enter that's already possible.
And that's something I'm probably going to be doing next next week or two.
Where I want to get one of these models that's good enough to run locally on your PC.
And then none of your data gets into the evil corporations.
Yeah.
For me, you know, I just want to say for for me at this point, like I am taking a little bit of a risk because I want to stay ahead of the curve.
Yeah.
Because these tools are so cool.
So I am gifting them my personal information.
And I won't recommend everybody to do it.
So if if you use these tools, just be aware that everything that you ask of it, like go look at this note.
That information is probably on the server somewhere.
And there's a risk to it.
There's even if you tell it not to train it on your data, it's still probably train.
Yeah, it's definitely going to train.
Definitely.
You should get something like this where it's convenient.
This is a full flesh computer.
And I had windows on it, but you could even see it.
It is on right now.
But I put Basite, which basically makes it kind of like a switch.
So you put it to sleep and jump right back into the game.
As soon as she turned it back on without it dying out, even on your gaming computer,
you could do like windows for AI and then Basite for gaming quickly jump into the game.
I can't I can't afford to game anymore.
It's like I wasn't I was a doeta to player.
So I really like these competitive games.
Like that's what gives my mind.
I was playing apex.
I'll get you.
Oh, yes.
I wasn't paid apex for all games like chess.
Like that's why I have a chess club that I go to on a weekly basis.
I don't allow myself to play more chess than that's because otherwise I go on chess.com.
And it's two, three hours a day trying to get better at this specific thing.
So I left gaming behind a little bit to concentrate on more important things,
more enjoyable things to be honest.
I definitely like the macro strategy of apex legends to where I would think grandiose.
I would see the map ahead and I would know that people are going this way,
people are going this way so that we should go here or we want to attack.
It's involved in it.
It's so addictive.
Yeah.
The same with games like doeta.
It's it's basically chess that you play.
It's like, oh, this person.
Or league.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's it's game theory.
It's like the the best real life example of game theory way.
Oh, this person is thinking this.
So I'm going to think this way.
But then they're going to think this.
But it's not a lot of time.
Unfortunately.
Yeah.
So the if someone wanted to find you online, what is the best place to look for you?
Construct by D would probably be the best place.
There's your podcast voice.
Okay.
Yeah, there we go.
A little bit.
You might not just switched on my improved mail voice.
Yeah.
Constructed gear.
This is doesn't polynivator and construct by D of the poly tools.
We just might.
But construct by D is probably the best place.
That's where I would have links to all of the different places where I have articles.
My new status on there and there's links to my YouTube channel.
YouTube channel is also construct by D.
I got all the links down below.
It's just more of an audio confirmation.
And at least two, you have a consistent branding across all of them.
We were talking about doing like a logo or having like a consistent like profile picture.
But at least your username is consistent across the board, which I can't tell you.
How frustrating it is when I talk to people and they have like.
And underscore on one of the channels within a one on the other channel.
And then like, you know, it's missing the buy on a different channel.
So it's just construct the year something like that.
It's like, guys, you got to keep the same username across the board.
I want to do a lot of different iterations when I had to choose a name.
It's installed deconstructed.workbench at gmail.com.
And it leads them like, no, construct by the makes a little bit.
It feels more personal.
So let's go with that.
I'm like, oh, damn, no, it's going to change my email address again.
But I just stuck with it.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I should tell you the store by Poly innovator.
That's a whole long one too.
Yeah.
Let's wrap things up here.
We'll talk again.
I definitely want to make a video with you about obsidian in general,
specifically, maybe for the other channel.
So.
Oh, yeah.
It's to it.
Thanks for having me.
Come on, pick a two.
I'll choose you.

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