5 items tagged “streaks”
2025
Ending a year long posting streak
A year ago today I wrote about Tom Scott’s legendary 10 year YouTube streak, in which he posted a new video once a week for the next ten years. Inspired by that, I also started my own.
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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.
[... 1,352 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.)
2020
15 rules for blogging, and my current streak (via) Matt Webb is on a 24 week streak of blogging multiple posts a week and shares his rules on how he’s doing this. These are really good rules. A rule of thumb that has helped me a lot is to fight back against the temptation to make a post as good as I can before I publish it— because that way lies a giant drafts folder and no actual published content. “Perfect is the enemy of shipped”.
2019
Weeknotes: Niche Museums, Kepler, Trees and Streaks
Every now and then someone will ask “so when are you going to build Museums Near Me then?”, based on my obsession with niche museums and websites like www.owlsnearme.com.
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