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#61 · How to Learn AI From the Ground Up: 2025 AI Curriculum

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What's the best way to do that?

I already had a couple of ideas. I'm going to create docs new and turn reduction community exclusives. The first thing I want to do is create a straight line path to optimize video outreach: cover camera, microphone, video content, what to talk about, how to annotate, other assets to give people, maybe an example script. I've already covered this stuff in other videos and my channel; I'm organizing it for high perceived value because many people struggle with it. I'll go through comments on the daily updates channel to find big sticking points and add them to my thing, then decide what my videos will be about. I'll scroll through comments to source ideas. Leonardo commented on my stuff; he runs AI Foundry, has 19K subs, his videos go viral; he does banger one-offs, kudos to him.

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youtube ↗Marketing

Do you have any tactical advice for growing an audience and finding the right topics?

I'm about to publish a video on my main channel covering this topic. I can see you're just starting with about five videos, experimenting with thumbnail templates and using AI for images—pretty accurate. Keep doing what you're doing; if you scaled up to 100 videos or 25 times your current output, you'd easily surpass 3,000 subscribers. I'll soon release a video detailing exactly how I approach this in the automation agency space, because lots of people want to replicate my growth. I've noticed channels copying my Instagram content outright, so I might as well share my secret sauce and monetize it.

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What is the best offer to pitch a YouTuber these days?

The best offer to pitch a YouTuber is probably ideation. I say that as somebody who has struggled with ideation. Everything on YouTube now starts with the packaging — the title and the thumbnail. That's just how the game works. People typically come up with titles and thumbnails before they even come up with the video. If you have some trending story that helps, but often evergreen channels will try to find the most insane moment or concept or idea to use in a thumbnail and then build their whole video stack around that. Sounds crazy, but it's true. So if you can help solve the bottleneck of ideation for somebody, they are typically able and willing to pay you a lot of money. I'm solving the bottleneck of ideation for myself and I've basically seen everything in my media business get alleviated as a result. The reality is people usually have more production capacity than they have ideas. So if you go all the way up the funnel and solve the very first step in the big pipeline, you'll usually do far better. I would sell them some sort of ideation system.

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youtube ↗Marketing

I run a short-term rental business on 9 acres, starting to document the journey at $20K/month in a similar format and I can tell you used AI a lot for a lot of these. Is that necessary?

Well, the big thing is how much money you're making right now. If you're already making $5-10K a month and have something worth talking about, then it's worth making videos. If not, don't waste time documenting—focus on actually succeeding with the business. Social media is a massive distraction; it's easy to fall into a narcissistic loop of checking impressions and tweaking gear, which is wasted effort unless you've already achieved financial success. Nobody cares about your journey until you've made it, so documenting before that is mostly wasted time. If you do become a big success (e.g., making a million a month), then you can post your first video and build a brand. Aside from that, I’ve been checking stats: my main channel grew 43% in the last 24 hours to 19741 subscribers, Instagram audio glitch aside, Maker School is up to 2111 members, etc. I also realized my earbuds mic got water‑damaged, so I’ll replace them with cheap earbuds and use compression to clean the audio. Finally, I’m going to get breakfast, moisturize, and crush the day.

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