It's a Tuesday and I've just hit release on my video for the week. I may get another one out this week, but most importantly i've hit my goal of 1 video a week and it's only Tuesday (and i have a kid!). This feels very good. Also, my experimental time-tracking habit gives some nice insight into how long this took. All told this appears to have taken less than 4 hours: ![[CleanShot 2025-01-14 at [email protected]]] Of course that doesn’t count the time spent doing research for this video at all, which I tracked as dev model context protocol and dev prompta. from last week: ![[CleanShot 2025-01-14 at [email protected]]] It’s hard to reason about how much time went towards the video though, because while I did show off my raycast extension in the video I didn’t need to, and in fact almost forgot to. So i could have done without the dev part of that, but the research that was tied up with the dev is how i know about the whole ecosystem. # What changed? - I spent my time better. Or more precisely, I directed more time towards the YouTube effort specifically - My rough idea (although not yet a tracked goal) is to spend 2 hours a day, 5 days a week on youtube. A part time job. With that in mind it becomes much more immediate day to day that i need to spend time on this thing. Harder to put it off to later in the week. - I did some editing but not much. - As with my [second to last video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ywWlUo-Us) I added cuts and trimmed out what I thought was excess, however this time I did add a few transitions and some visual effects. Very minimal though. - It remains to be seen to what degree this affects retention. I would tend to think visually interesting videos would do better for the same content, and thus I should add more visual flourishes, but it takes more time. - Reps reps reps is the mantra, and visual effects are not needed for reps. - I had thought about the video content a lot the week previous. - Some of my videos are more along the lines of "here's something i've come to beleive", but this was very much in the camp of "here's something I just spent time learning". So it was fresh in my mind in a way that maybe other content isn't? - Just speculating here - I wrote a whole "app" (if you will) to show in the video. this took time but also gave me a more clear understanding of what i wanted to talk about. - this is all new tech. Having written a few MCP servers before publishing definitely gives me confidence I knwo the ecosystem. None of this is to say the video was "good" by the metric of people click + people watch, but that's out of my hands. This video was "good" by the standard of getting more reps, because the quicker i can make videos the faster the reps. Ah, right, here's the link if you're interested: > [!hint] How to add tools to your AI > [https://youtu.be/iCTnDNVotfU](https://youtu.be/iCTnDNVotfU)