The AI content test that failed got my attention, because I ran the same test and got the same result. 100% automated drafts read like nobody. The fix was not better prompts. It was the 20 videos I had already answered for free in client emails, in DMs, in replies to comments. Every real question a customer asked me once is a video. I stopped scraping trending topics and opened my own inbox. I found 34 questions I had answered by hand over two years. Those became the outline for 34 videos. I recorded 12 of them in one weekend. The AI writes the description now, pulls the chapter markers, drafts the pinned comment. I write the answer because I am the only one who has it. That is the division of labor that holds up. Scraped topics get views from strangers who leave. Answered questions get subscribers who come back. What is the question you have answered the most times by hand in your own email or DMs?

For a long time my process was: sit down, think of something, record it, upload it and wait. The editing got better every month, the thumbnails got better, and the views stayed exactly where they were. What I changed was the order. Now the first thing I do in the week is look at what is already moving in my niche: which hook they use, which format holds, and how long it has been working. Then I record. That part I do with an AI app that pulls it together for me, but it works by hand too: open five channels that talk to the same people you do, and write down what each video promises in the first line. Three things I would do this week: - Before you record, write the one line someone gets from the title and the thumbnail alone. If that line is not interesting without the video, the edit will not save it. - Look at channels your size, not the big ones. What a huge channel does works because of the channel, not because of the format. - Keep a list of the videos that did nothing and look at what they have in common. That list tells you more than the one that worked. Last month I went past a million views and one piece hit 500k, and I record less than I used to. If this is useful to anyone, leave me a question below and I will go through how I do it.

I pubished this video today and would like to know what you all think. I've been on vacation the last couple weeks. I made my own thumbnail not using 1of 10, I didn't edit the video. I wanted to discuss hurdles in life especially as an amputee. Would love feedback. https://youtu.be/WPe3S4Ifqew?is=TxuagG66q_MlveIM

I spent weeks writing technical posts that completely tanked on mobile. I was spending 2 hours drafting in obsidian, testing the snippets, and checking the architecture On my desktop monitor, the drafts looked clean Then I opened one of the live posts on my iphone, it was unreadable. A 4-sentence paragraph had stretched into 14 lines of unbroken text. Readers on linkedin saw zero whitespace and scrolled away in 2 seconds The code was solid, but nobody reads a solid wall of text on a 6-inch glass screen. I only fixed the retention when I stopped guessing line breaks and started using a layout grid. Today, I run a 3-tool workflow that separates the writing from the mobile formatting: - Raw capture in obsidian: I dump my terminal outputs, error logs, and architecture notes into local markdown without worrying about line breaks - Fluff removal in claude: I run the draft through claude with a strict prompt to cut passive voice, strip filler words, and keep sentences under 15 words - Layout extraction: I grab the structural skeleton from posts in blotato and that held high engagement on linkedin. It strips away the author's words and leaves the whitespace grid: a 1-line tension opener, a 2-line problem frame, 3 short mechanism bullets, and a diagnostic closer I drop my cleaned notes straight into that empty grid and schedule the post The structure makes the post scannable in 45 seconds on an iphone, while the substance stays 100% technical. My drafting time dropped from 2 hours of manual reformatting down to 15 minutes of review. When you post technical work online, do you write freestyle into a blank box, or do you draft inside a fixed layout grid?

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