Three Birds, One Stone
Published November 06, 2021 · 5:43 · 81,287 views
About This Video
The title suggests efficiency, and the five-minute runtime delivers it without padding. Van demonstrates the principle that good design addresses multiple constraints at once. The best fixes don't just solve the immediate problem. They collapse adjacent problems into the same intervention. Look for the move that accomplishes three things, not one.
The brevity is itself an application of the principle. A longer video would belabor what a short one proves: that elegant fixes are, by definition, compact. Five minutes. Three problems. One fix. Van doesn't theorize about efficiency; he demonstrates it, and the demonstration is the argument.
Transcript
this spirited man needs a stone to kill three birds he thinks he may have found
this Stone but he wants your input the first bird money thank you for supporting this channel I really am living the dream and
it's a true blessing to live and work in such a beautiful and Serene
Place having said that he wants to earn more money he wants more children and a
bigger house for them he wants to send his boy to the school in the mountains where they learn
outside and ironically that ain't cheap send more kids there too God
willing everybody needs money that's why they call it money everybody needs money
that's why they call it money bird number two more work better
work currently it takes about 5 days to make one of these videos typically he spends three of
those 5 days [Music] writing most of the work is done in solitude he would like to make two videos per week and work with others which brings us to the third
bird more connection twice in the wild in the past month this spirited man has heard the
Declaration that connection is the opposite of addiction this spirited man has been
blessed with wonderful friends friends he [Music] misses busy friends busy like him most of his friends make
things most of his friends have great ideas some of his friends have made work
you may have [Music] seen in my way of living and nobody's going to tell me any otherwise [Music] so what's the stone maybe this is obvious but the stone is a
patreon we are not sponsored by patreon they don't give us any
money patreon is like a streaming service but you subscribe to one Creator
at a time it's a miracle it gives many artists the first steady
income of their [Music] lives I've been wanting to do a patreon for a while but I couldn't figure out how to do patreon content and YouTube
content without crushing myself with labor and destroying my life and my family so I'm still going to post a
YouTube video every week but I also have an idea for a patreon video every week and this is what I'm thinking for the
bottom tier for five bucks a month so each week I will have one of my buddies over to the studio or do a zoom call
with them and we will have about a 30 minute to an hour conversation about what the YouTube
video will be about what Friday's YouTu YouTube video will be about it'll be a sort of Writers Workshop video and
that's for patreon that will post on Tuesdays then on Fridays I'll post the
YouTube video that the 1hour patreon conversation was about so the $5 patreon
tier is the companion or enhancer video to the Friday YouTube video so my
question to you for you to answer in the comments is one is this a good idea for
the patreon video two what should I offer for other tiers on patreon and
three how much should the other tiers cost okay so tell us what you think in
the comments and hopefully in a month or so we'll have the patreon up and running and hopefully it'll be great the
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