Items tagged youtube in Jan, 2024
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Tom Scott, and the formidable power of escalating streaks
Ten years ago yesterday, Tom Scott posted this video to YouTube about “Special Crossings For Horses In Britain”. It was the first in his Things You Might Not Know series, but more importantly it was the start of a streak.
[... 1352 words]After ten years, it’s time to stop making videos. Ten years ago, my friend Tom Scott started a deliberate streak of posting YouTube videos—initially about one a day before settling into a cadence of one a week. He kept that up for the full ten years, growing his subscribers to over 6 million in the process.
Today he’s ending that streak, in unparalleled style.
(I’m proud to have made an appearance in video number 13, talking about Zeppelins.) # 1st January 2024, 10:59 pm