Wave is Coming, You Gonna Surf or Cry Into The Sea?

Surf's Up (or else)

I asked if you were feeling it earlier this week. I'm feeling it and it turns out everyone else is feeling it right now too. The world's got a distinct end-times societal collapse vibe going right now and those with even the most stubborn of noses are beginning to smell that burning hair and B.O. smell that indicates something is rotten.

Firstly - I want to say to anyone struggling out there, you are not the only one noticing this. They want us to feel isolated and gaslit. That's why they're suppressing my videos harder the more I talk about it. The jobs report just came out this past week and it says:

Everything is just peachy, why are you complaining? Don't you want to compete with a global workforce? Don't you want the AI? We're doing so many good things for you and you just complain. BTW have you considered calling off your decades-long office work career and going into the trades at the ripe old age of 55?

• Jobs Report (as I recall it from memory... summarized...)

These things aren't being done FOR us, they're being done TO us. Go look outside, go talk to normal people. Everyone knows the situation is dire yet they keep demanding that more of our money be sent to foreign nations most of use will never even visit, that the ballroom needs to be bigger and grander, and that they need to import more foreign workers into tech during one of the worst unemployment crises in the sector.

They DO NOT want us to talk about it!

All eyes are on output lately but what aren't they seeing? Producing 10x the work for 1/10th the pay is an overcrowded racket. Nobody is watching the inputs. These days, power flows from curating the neglected inputs. More on that later on...

I believe that my ban from YouTube may be coming sooner than I expected. After my Rome is Burning video YouTube immediately put my channel on ice. Nearly every video I have posted since then has elite viewership metrics (high % of people clicking on the video, long watch times) but YouTube refused to show it to more than a handful of people. I am hitting on some points, like who exactly is buying up and shaping tech media, that they clearly do not want me talking about to any appreciable audience.

Take the example below, two videos, about the same CTR (6.3-6.4%). YouTube showed the first video thumbnail to over 1 million people (!!), once I started saying things YouTube didn't like, a similarly performing video was only seen by 53k people. BTW I only had 1k subs when the first video was posted and 25k when the second was posted which makes what's going on even more glaringly obvious. I take this as a positive sign that I am over target and doing something good for the American worker.

Tech Power Law: Surf

When the waves are crashing this hard you got two choices.

You can cry salty tears into the salty sea and nobody is going to care. Probably nobody is even going to notice that you're crying.

Or you can pick up thy board and surf. The old model is dead! Only 18-20 year olds understand this and are reacting appropriately, we have to follow their lead for once! The "American Dream" is looking pretty BLEAK if you're just getting a start right now. I'm seeing a lot of Gen Z'ers pursuing different avenues. Some of the most industrious are leaving the US entirely for greener pastures, and who could blame them?

They are flexible and they are surfing.

You may argue "but Dr. J, I have a mortgage! I have responsibilities!" You have to start thinking outside of the box. Neither of us can control the societal and macroeconomic conditions right now. Drastic times call for drastic measures. Sell the house, move out of the country, try doing a YouTube channel based around whatever makes you weird or turns you on, live 10 people to a house, swindle a stupid venture capitalist into giving you a few million dollars for your "startup" (tons of people doing this in SF right now, lots of easy marks!), buy land with your friends and build a private neighborhood. The world is always your oyster.

Keep your dial tuned to my YouTube channel this week - we're going to explore whatever comes up (and some that doesn't) through this lens of surf this week.

Sneak Peek: this week's notes for videos

I'm looking outside as I'm writing this, and for once, it looks like bright rays of sunshine cutting through the fog.