That doesn't really answer the question: why are you so intent on making Youtube videos when you are making essentially no money off of them and you surely don't find them enjoyable to make?
YouTube is a platform for building an audience for my side business. You don't make money on YouTube. You build a business around YouTube. Yes, I do enjoy making videos. I've done it for three years now. First on a specialized channel and now on a generalized channel.
Videos of fountains, WTF?
I'm still experimenting with the content. Amy Schmittauer did a collaboration with a London-based American who vlogs about London as a go to destination. I'm thinking about doing the same for Silicon Valley. Most videos about Silicon Valley is about technology and people. Very few are about Silicon Valley as a place and I know the local landmarks.
[...] while a simple entire-market-index-fund has gone up about 30% in the last three years.
I guess you weren't around for the Great Recession when the stock market dropped 50% and took nearly a decade to recover that. Those who had to sell were screwed. Those who could wait are now experiencing a nice bull rally. Half your silver stack isn't going to disappear overnight because someone made a bad bet and crashed the Wall Street casino. There's a reason why precious metals in physical form are called hard savings.
I made $75 on my Precious Metals channel with 50+ videos, 200+ subscribers and 18K+ views over a three year period. Current CPM is $3. That's a specialized audience. My author channel is aimed at a more general audience.
The only reason that I continue to post comments on Slashdot is to draw external traffic to my YouTube channel. Contrary to what my trolls "think", people really do read Slashdot at -1 and click on my YouTube links. I don't pay attention to the goat fucking that's done in the comments.
Intel and AMD has a cross-licensing patent agreement in place to exchange technology. For Intel to have a GeForce GPU inside its processors, they would have to fork over some serious cash to NVidia. That's not happening since both companies compete in the machine learning space.
My hair turns gray the moment it gets cut. The 20-something hair stylist at Supercuts recently gave me a senior citizen discount. I'm only 48 and I'm not expecting to retire for another 30 years. I'm too young for senior discounts.
I was recording video at San Jose City Hall when I noticed several kids were playing with a new drone. Didn't take them long to fly it straight up that it disappeared from sight. May have gone above the 400 feet limit. Most tall buildings in the are are restricted to 300 feet or less, as the airport is nearby and flight zones are overhead.
I'm always afraid that this might happen to me. Since my 10+ year old side business is a matter of public record, and third-party information brokers have scattered my personal information far and wide, my dedicated band of trolls on Slashdot (one person with a copy-&-paste personality disorder and a few hanger ons) have made repeated references to where I live. Sometimes even taunting me with the wrong floor plan for my apartment.
My Dell laptop won't upgrade to the latest and greatest version of Windows 10. I have to do a fresh install every time. Meh... I needed a larger SSD anyway.
At my government IT job, Windows 8 got rolled out on a bunch of tablets and never made it into production. Win10 is supposedly going into production and I've seen one system show up in the NESSUS scan data. My management team gave me approval and promised reimbursement to pursue a Win10 MSCE in 2018.
Tell me about it! The VTA is raising fare prices next month! A monthly express pass will cost an extra $20. I'll have to stop drinking skinny vanilla lattes for four days each month to work the increase into my budget.
Treat it like a side business while working a job that pays the bills. Reinvest the money into something else that will produce additional revenue streams. When that revenue stream disappears in time, the other revenue streams will continue to pay. If you want to do this as a fulltime business, you should have at least 30 different revenue streams. Your business should never depend on a single source of revenue.
I guess we are seeing the front of the wave of children that have all been told they are special.
Uh, no. Being "special" has been a thing since the 1980's. I was in the fifth grade when everyone got an award on Award Day. Except me, of course. I was kinda of "special" since I didn't attend enough school to merit any award. I've learned two lessons that day: 1) I'm not like everyone else, and 2) I don't need to be like everyone else.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot had a story about non-Newtonian fluid being used in speed bumps. Drive slow, soft bump. Drive fast, hard bump.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/09/09/1910235/an-intelligent-speed-bump-uses-non-newtonian-liquid
That's a good thing. Otherwise, we wouldn't have Bill Gates Does Windows screensaver for the Mac back in the day.
The Space Wall will make the illegal alien problem on Earth worse.
Not sure why you're complaining. When you make $50K per year cleaning out IT closets in Silicon Valley, this kind of stuff adds to your job security.
That doesn't really answer the question: why are you so intent on making Youtube videos when you are making essentially no money off of them and you surely don't find them enjoyable to make?
YouTube is a platform for building an audience for my side business. You don't make money on YouTube. You build a business around YouTube. Yes, I do enjoy making videos. I've done it for three years now. First on a specialized channel and now on a generalized channel.
Videos of fountains, WTF?
I'm still experimenting with the content. Amy Schmittauer did a collaboration with a London-based American who vlogs about London as a go to destination. I'm thinking about doing the same for Silicon Valley. Most videos about Silicon Valley is about technology and people. Very few are about Silicon Valley as a place and I know the local landmarks.
[...] while a simple entire-market-index-fund has gone up about 30% in the last three years.
I guess you weren't around for the Great Recession when the stock market dropped 50% and took nearly a decade to recover that. Those who had to sell were screwed. Those who could wait are now experiencing a nice bull rally. Half your silver stack isn't going to disappear overnight because someone made a bad bet and crashed the Wall Street casino. There's a reason why precious metals in physical form are called hard savings.
I made $75 on my Precious Metals channel with 50+ videos, 200+ subscribers and 18K+ views over a three year period. Current CPM is $3. That's a specialized audience. My author channel is aimed at a more general audience.
The only reason that I continue to post comments on Slashdot is to draw external traffic to my YouTube channel. Contrary to what my trolls "think", people really do read Slashdot at -1 and click on my YouTube links. I don't pay attention to the goat fucking that's done in the comments.
No need to wait for SF authors. Sperm has been proven to be an anti-depressant in women.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201101/attention-ladies-semen-is-antidepressant
Intel and AMD has a cross-licensing patent agreement in place to exchange technology. For Intel to have a GeForce GPU inside its processors, they would have to fork over some serious cash to NVidia. That's not happening since both companies compete in the machine learning space.
My hair turns gray the moment it gets cut. The 20-something hair stylist at Supercuts recently gave me a senior citizen discount. I'm only 48 and I'm not expecting to retire for another 30 years. I'm too young for senior discounts.
Uh, no. Have a drink.
I was looking so forward to Al Franken and Jill Stein running in 2020.
FRANKENSTEIN 2020!
How can you say that? When you make $50K per year cleaning out IT closets in Silicon Valley, cash on hand is very important.
I was recording video at San Jose City Hall when I noticed several kids were playing with a new drone. Didn't take them long to fly it straight up that it disappeared from sight. May have gone above the 400 feet limit. Most tall buildings in the are are restricted to 300 feet or less, as the airport is nearby and flight zones are overhead.
The stories should reflect society as it is today. White men controlling everything is so 1950's.
I'm always afraid that this might happen to me. Since my 10+ year old side business is a matter of public record, and third-party information brokers have scattered my personal information far and wide, my dedicated band of trolls on Slashdot (one person with a copy-&-paste personality disorder and a few hanger ons) have made repeated references to where I live. Sometimes even taunting me with the wrong floor plan for my apartment.
I'm looking forward to NASA launching a space probe to Alpha Centurai in 2069. Now I have something to look forward to in my 100th year of life.
My Dell laptop won't upgrade to the latest and greatest version of Windows 10. I have to do a fresh install every time. Meh... I needed a larger SSD anyway.
You would think that the illuminated Apple logo on top of the roof would have melt the snow off. Oh, wait.
At my government IT job, Windows 8 got rolled out on a bunch of tablets and never made it into production. Win10 is supposedly going into production and I've seen one system show up in the NESSUS scan data. My management team gave me approval and promised reimbursement to pursue a Win10 MSCE in 2018.
Tell me about it! The VTA is raising fare prices next month! A monthly express pass will cost an extra $20. I'll have to stop drinking skinny vanilla lattes for four days each month to work the increase into my budget.
111011011010 found great success in cleaning out IT closets for $50K per year in Silicon Valley.
Treat it like a side business while working a job that pays the bills. Reinvest the money into something else that will produce additional revenue streams. When that revenue stream disappears in time, the other revenue streams will continue to pay. If you want to do this as a fulltime business, you should have at least 30 different revenue streams. Your business should never depend on a single source of revenue.
I look forward to seeing the launch during my 100th year of life. I'm so excited!
I guess we are seeing the front of the wave of children that have all been told they are special.
Uh, no. Being "special" has been a thing since the 1980's. I was in the fifth grade when everyone got an award on Award Day. Except me, of course. I was kinda of "special" since I didn't attend enough school to merit any award. I've learned two lessons that day: 1) I'm not like everyone else, and 2) I don't need to be like everyone else.