today i started streaming on twitch. i'm going to try to speedrun becoming a twitch affiliate.

i played roblox for an hour. my live viewership peaked at 2: me watching my own stream, and a bot trying to sell me followers.

pretty successful first day!

i've been thinking about something gary vee said about humility. he talks about how people think they need to be a certain kind of person before they can start putting themselves out there.

you think you need to be smart enough to have something worth saying, good-looking enough to be on camera, or entertaining enough for people to watch you. and i think there's a lot of arrogance in that. you're assuming people are going to care so much about you that you need to prepare yourself for their attention.

the reality is that most people have no idea who you are. and that's honestly pretty liberating.

gary vee has been talking about livestreaming for years. one of his biggest recommendations is to go live consistently, even if nobody is watching. you get better by spending time doing it. so i just went ahead and clicked on go live.

right now is the most important time to do it. especially streaming video games. all the advancements in ai world models and new LLMs like GPT 6 Astra that can understand 3d spaces are already revolutionizing gaming right now. with GTA 6 launching in less than a month, it’s the best time to play video games, and there’s even more room for new streamers that people will watch.

with all text based media being written by ai these days, whether it’s tweets or essays or newsletters, video has emerged as the better medium for authenticity until ai video models get better.

making a video is more effort than writing an essay, so for a few months at least, making video content is the best way to put yourself out there. don’t just write about your ideas, post a video (“rip a reel”) - give people a face to attach to your ideas.

that’s what i’m gonna do.