I read some dystopian predictions about the future of YouTube and the changes AI will bring to it, and today I’m talking about how I plan my next steps as a video creator facing AI.

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YouTube Strategist's X post: https://x.com/JimMakos/status/2013276207647727621

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What those three months working in a call center taught me and how they pushed me straight into entrepreneurship.

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🧠 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:55 My Dream Life at 19
• 02:17 Why I Suddenly Decided to Get a Job
• 03:32 Answering My Very First Call
• 05:30 I Was a Little Risk-Taking Rebel, Not an Employee
• 06:52 Learning People, One Call at a Time
• 11:47 Learning the Value of Money
• 13:30 Life Is the Greatest School
• 14:49 Fortunately, I Worked as an Employee Once in My Life

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What led me to drop out of university, how my life has evolved since, and what lessons I’m still learning even today from that decision?

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:53 It Was Never My Dream to Become an Engineer
• 04:11 The Student Life Felt Just Like High School All Over Again
• 05:13 The Visit That Made Me Question Everything
• 06:14 I Looked at the Future – and Didn't Like What I Saw
• 07:18 Computers – and Money – Were My True Passion
• 10:25 I Never Had Doubts About My Decision
• 12:12 The Life I Lived – Not the One I Didn't
• 13:38 I Didn't Know Why Dropping University Was So Easy for Me – Until This Week
• 17:40 Every Obstacle for a Reason
• 20:07 Get the podcast's transcript in your inbox
• 20:29 University Was My Comfort Zone – and I Had to Get Out

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Back in the day, every Amazon order felt like a celebration: I’d hit “buy” before noon, and the very next day at exactly 3 p.m., the intercom would buzz. “Mr. Jim, UPS here—a package for you.” I’d gotten to the point where I’d ask the delivery guy about his wife and the baby. That’s how often he showed up. I didn’t mind dropping an extra 25-30€ on expedited shipping.This year, late November, I decided—for the first time in years—to order with standard, free shipping. I never imagined that one little click would turn into a journey of anxiety, phone calls to the Greek postal service, an AI reading me the exact same thing I was already seeing on my screen, and a package that got “stuck” for 4 days in Athens.

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🧠 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:23 How I Ended Up Knowing My UPS Driver Personally
• 02:31 After Years, I Finally Chose Standard Shipping on Amazon
• 03:41 I Felt a Small “Defeat” Clicking the Standard Shipping Button on Amazon
• 06:30 A Fake “Failed Delivery” Cost Me 4 Days (and a Bit of Sleep)
• 07:38 The Courier’s AI Was Absolutely No Help
• 08:59 Get the episode's transcript in your inbox
• 09:21 Will I Ever Pay 25-30€ for Fast Shipping Again?

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From zero to 30+ pieces across platforms: How I overcame perfectionism, ditched endless planning, and built a sustainable routine inspired by Casey Neistat. Discover why starting messy beats waiting forever, and how social media changed my game. If you're a creator stuck in analysis paralysis, this is your wake-up call – plus tips on personal branding and content workflow.

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Social media content management tool: https://jmks.co/typefully

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🧠 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 I created 100 pieces of content on 6 different platforms
• 01:13 The Day I Started Writing Online Every Day
• 02:45 Social Media Won Me Over Instead of Writing on My Blog
• 04:01 The Beginning Is Half the Battle
• 05:13 My Ideas Weren’t Reaching Far Enough
• 06:20 The Week I Almost Quit Content Creation
• 07:46 When Content Creation Becomes Addictive for the Wrong Reasons
• 08:58 When Content Creation Becomes Addictive for the Wrong Reasons
• 10:43 Overthinking Helped Me Find a Rhythm in Content Creation
• 12:40 Newsletter plug
• 13:03 The Biggest Lesson After a Month of Daily Content Creation
• 14:31 If I Didn’t Start Now, When?

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In the world of financial influencers, there’s this fairy tale going around that sells you the hope that you can nail saving easily by just quitting your morning coffee.

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🧠 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 I've survived without drinking coffee!
• 00:46 Get Rich by Quitting Coffee and Other Fairy Tales
• 02:20 How Much Spendthrift Can You Be When You Still Live With Your Parents?
• 03:06 To Get Rich, I Quit Peinirli-with-Egg Instead of Coffee
• 04:26 Humans Always Choose the Easy Path
• 06:01 If You Don’t Go to Extremes, You’ll Never Be Heard!
• 07:32 We’re All Lazy. Long Laziness!
• 10:25 The Secret to Hustling Without Feeling It Like Work
• 12:21 Success Requires Bigger Sacrifices Than Quitting Coffee
• 16:20 A Number on a Screen Doesn’t Automatically Make You Rich
• 18:21 Get the transcript of this letter!
• 18:43 The Real Reason to Quit Coffee

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Many have hated money, but nobody has hated fame. What we do with our lives shapes the reputation we end up with. And sometimes it’s not the one we wanted.

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🧠 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:46 Who Actually Knows Why They’re on the Internet?
• 02:32 I’m Jim and…
• 03:47 Twenty Years and I Still Haven’t Figured Out What I Do on the Internet
• 05:14 First Impression Is Everything
• 06:19 5 Ways to Start Any Story and Keep Attention
• 08:58 One Single Word Can Change an Entire Life!
• 12:03 People Don’t Need Labels — Except One
• 13:50 Do You Live in the Past or in the Present?
• 17:42 Get the transcript of the podcast episode as a newsletter
• 18:05 Total Strangers Will Tell You What You Do

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The budgeting I’ve been doing for the past 10 years lets me take full advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals without wasting money on unused subscriptions.

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🧠 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 4 Smart Black Friday Purchases I Made Thanks to Budgeting
• 01:22 The open secret of Adobe users
• 02:59 Buying 1 TB of cloud storage for €10 a year!
• 06:22 My websites now cost me €2,500 less per year
• 09:11 I buy expensive shoes by the truckload
• 11:18 Get the transcript of the podcast episode as a newsletter
• 11:42 I save money on Black Friday because of budgeting

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Jim