Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Hasan Piker Scandal Reveals Sickly Left-Liberal Streaming Culture" video.

  1. YouTube is like alcohol. It makes a good servant, but a poor master. I spend "an unhealthy amount of time" on YouTube, but I at least try to bend it to my will, rather than just accept what Google is pushing on that day (which is almost always vapid and time-wasting). But I'm kind of exceptional in that I'm a virtual shut-in, due to a physical handicap. It's not 100% healthy, I know, but it's kept my mind active and the new ideas coming in. But the closest I've gotten to camping out in the last year or two has been watching a good Swedwoods video or catching Luke on Outdoor Boys. I'm fascinated (always have been, since a kid in the '70s) by permaculture concepts. I think the New Tech in building, heating and cooling homes and small-plot agriculture offers a revolution in eating and living better, and I'm applying it to my own place I make my living teaching math remotely. One thing I will say about Hasan Piker is that when you set your own hours and your own goals, it's easy to make a job for yourself that sucks you dry. "Perfect teaching takes an infinite amount of time." Every decent teacher needs to find that balance between doing a perfect job and doing a very good job. Many teachers, including me, tend to make their jobs take more than 40 hours a week, especially when we're trying to improve what we're doing. For instance, I made about 1,000 videos last semester for one of my classes. I changed to a different textbook and learning management system (From Pearson to WebAssign) and it was time for a new set of videos (hopefully better) providing instruction AND an example of virtually every single exercise my students will encounter. This isn't something in the job description. It's just something that destroys a semester for me, but makes the next several semesters go MUCH more smoothly, because there's on-demand help from me on every single concept, that they can access 24/7. I do that extra work and it saves me hundreds of hours every semester AFTER that. But MAN was it a chore getting everything made and uploaded! Anyway, Hasan just needs to find some balance, but it sounds like his business model requires too much of his time. Men, especially, are prone to this. Most men and almost all women are pretty good at finding a good balance. But Type A people can grind themselves to dust. This is very common in small business, and why most small businesses don't grow into big business. The guy/gal running the thing holds all the threads and doesn't know how to recruit, train, and delegate. That's why most small businesses aren't scalable.
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