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Don’t like free service, pay for youtube premium. My family and I share YouTube premium and we love it. my nephews and nieces are shielded from ads on YT. To be honest I would pay money for ad free services.


Do you not see political ads on YouTube premium?


Zero ads plus you get YouTube music which I use daily


You see no YouTube ads on YT Premium AFAIK.


That's the sales pitch. It's not entirely true, even before considering how many YouTube videos are themselves ads.


splitting hairs... but ok. Adverts are different to infomercials...


I am using zoom for school with 300 students and it works great. My professors who are not tech savvy were able to use it without problem. Zoom makes recording, screen sharing and chatting much easier than other softwares. Also, I like how easy it is to call in.

Also, at my work we use zoom for everything. It is a powerful software that we love.


Get Young and Freedman- university Physics and start working on problems. You can find help with those problems online. Make a study guide with timeline. Make flash cards and learn the equations. Find exams online and take those just like you were in school and have a friend grade it.


I believe TikTok is great for younger generation. It lets them be silly without any filters and photoshop.


I believe the 6 seconds wasn’t enough for people to be creative. TikTok started with 15 second and one minute plus they implemented soundtrack system and great machine learning algo


There are two things happening in social media world right now.

First, when it comes to messaging friends and connecting with people most college kids uses Snapchat. I am in a big college and everyone at my university uses Snapchat for messaging. I believe that it is smart for Snapchat to default on camera when opening the app this way it keeps the distraction away and you can focus on whatever you were planning to do like reading a message plus it is a good privacy oriented platform.

Second, when it comes to being silly and occupy boredom, kids are using tiktok. TilTok has a great recommendation algorithm. Sometime, if I don’t pay attention I can spends hours on the app. TikTok became a safe space for younger generation, where they don’t need filters and photoshop to be part of a community.

Here is a great article in WSJ about TikTok

https://www.wsj.com/articles/help-im-trapped-inside-tiktok-a...


Snapchat = in the US Same as how so many young people in the US don’t have Whatsapp. AFAICT Instagram is king in Europe (for now).


Dare to Lead -Rene Brown

Fooled by randomness- Nassim T

Principle - Ray Dalio

Drive - D Pink

The Laws of Human Nature -R Greene

Influence- Robert Cialdini

21st lessons for 21st century - Y. Harari

Why we sleep -M. Walker

Skin in the Game - Nassim T. Social Animal - David B.

Einstein - Isaacson

Steve Jobs - Isaacson

Blink - malcolm gladwell

Outlier - malcolm gladwell

The tipping point - malcolm gladwell

Game of Throne series


I love all these books except the four hour work week. I do not believe Tim understand what it takes for a person in low income class to be successful.


In defense of self-help books; you latch to the one that finds you.

The 4-hour workweek provided me a useful foil to Gladwell’s “10,000” hours. It might take 10k to master, but you sure as hell can move fast if you get to 80% in 10 hours.


Great article in Forbes about 4 - hour work week. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelschein/2019/01/17/tim-fe...


Selling a well-packaged promise for easy riches has proven to be a successful strategy over and over again.


The Laws of Human Nature

Love this book


One IPhone you can turn Do Not Disturb option and only allow calls from your contact list. All other calls will be muted. Also, I do not answers numbers which I do not recognize and send it to voicemail, If they don’t leave voicemail I will add that number to my block list.


I tried this on my iPhone but the problem is, it seems to block all text notifications. I get way more texts from friends and family than I do phone calls. If it worked for texts the same way, that would be perfect.

I'm probably going to look into the silent ring tone for unknown numbers because that will get me closest to what I want.


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