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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I can’t really blame the man for trying to diversify and make a little side business with the notebook/calendar stuff. I imagine the nerdy young adults in college who watch his videos make up a decent amount of his viewer base. He took a bet that demographic would be into overpriced fancy productivity notebooks, so its a know your audience type thing maybe. I still think his videos are a fun and informative watch.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’ll pop in and watch one sometimes, but I was like, a shirt buying, subscribing, pod-cast listening fan. And I really enjoyed his show with Brady. But it felt like all Gray did was talk about productivity, and like… no content was coming out. Granted this was many, many years ago. It does look like the recipe is still working, but there were times where it would be… months, almost years between pieces of content. Which was at odds with the very early under-produced days. But I found the obviously scripted and overproduction involved the post, the forced-ness of it all very off putting. I would put the demarcation at pre and post “Humans need not apply”, which I still think is probably the best video they’ve done. And that video was 10 years ago.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I took Gray on productivity as a suggestion that those methods don’t help you get stuff done

      Though I do still use the Getting Things Done method for my work email

      I dropped off his patreon when he changed it from per video to per month. I don’t think he’s made anything significant since the paper scissors rock set

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cortex also used to be very interesting but now it’s just the same things over and over. Hello Internet was fun but I guess Grey optimize out the fun from his endeavours.

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