🧑💻 Why You Should Make Internet Friends
The Sunday Night Review
Hey everyone,
Since I first started making YouTube videos back in October 2021, I’ve made a whole bunch of friends online. Some I’ve met in real life and some I just call or message from time to time.
I never saw myself as the type of person who would do this.
Until recently, I never commented on anything, I never used online forums or things like Reddit, I wasn’t even interested in reading the comment section on YouTube videos which I now know is a really popular activity.
I just wasn’t interested.
But how things have changed. Since I started YouTube, occasionally I’ll get a message from someone asking to meet up or chat, or I’ll message someone I follow and see if they have time to talk.
I’ve since spoken to 10s of people in places like India, Italy and the US.
This week I had a call with a 21 year old college student called Juan Gomez, based in California.
I came across a Twitter thread of his about how he got a job for Dickie Bush, a successful and relatively well-known (in the creator Twittersphere) online writer.
I loved what he wrote, so started following him and then he DM’d me a few weeks later and we got talking, and eventually had a zoom call.
Juan is killing it.
It’s crazy to see a 21 year old being so proactive, thoughtful and knowledgeable about business, side hustles and writing online.
One thing we spoke about was how most people still don’t know about the power of the online world.
It sounds so simple, but if you’re posting stuff, people can find you and follow you and help you on your journey.
But 99% of people post nothing online.
Twitter in particular is extremely useful for making connections because of private DMs. LinkedIn is also great for this.
By the way, if you fancy seeing updates from my day to day work and useful YouTube related insights, then follow me on Twitter.
In Juan’s case, it was one DM to Dickie Bush that changed his life. One single DM.
As a result he’s been able to have calls and work with a multi-millionaire entrepreneur. It’s so unlikely to get that kind of access through other means.
And then one thread about what happened led to us connecting online. When you start posting online, you get addicted to this level of serendipity.
So the takeaways are making internet friends is fun, utilise Twitter to get in contact with interesting people, and the comment section on YouTube is where it’s at.
Have a great week!
Tintin
🔗 Linkworthy 🔗
How to Crush it on Twitter - on my to watch list
24 Rules of Investing with Alex Hormozi
I’ve been inspired by Justin Welsh a bit recently. Here’s a great thread.
Old video of mine about posting content online. Please hold the judgment, it was my 8th video and I still had no idea what I was doing.
📚 My Reading Log 📚
I’ve not read a lot this week sadly, but I thought maybe it’d be interesting to track my books as I read them (or start them lol) here so you can follow along in real time, and it will force me to read more so I have stuff to add! I’ll also try to share a takeaway from something too. I’m trying to level up as an entrepreneur believe it or not, so will probably see more business books appearing over time.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - 100%.
Storyworthy by Mathew Dicks - 50%.
Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Khanemen - 1%
Scary Smart by Mo Gowdat - 30% - probably won’t return to.
Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday - 40%
Quit by Annie Duke - 5%
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment.”
Jim Rohn