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This is a personal space for things I'd otherwise keep in notebooks: travel notes, writing, photos and resources from my previous work in AI and data science.

There's also a corner dedicated to my work helping tech companies with YouTube, if that's what brought you here.

Travel Notes

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Travel life, Notes from the road

Old shoes

Travel life, Notes from the road

While relaxing after lunch having our coffees, I saw that the stitching on the nose of my shoe is coming undone. Might be a sign normally that it is time to toss this pair and get a new one. But in that moment, it reminded me of how much I have.

Travel life, Notes from the road

Hiking, Nepal

Nepal, 3 Passes Trek

Hiking, Nepal

Soon we'll be trekking towards the highest mountain in the world. That's awesome. The feeling on unpreparedness slowly sets in, but I revel in it. Oh it's a great feeling. Uncertainty ahead. It's fueling! We only have one day and two evenings to prepare before we leave Kathmandu and start out journey to the Khumbu region. Not much time for sightseeing. Let's begin.

Hiking, Nepal

Travel log, Outdoors, Türkiye, Hiking

Lycian Way

Travel log, Outdoors, Türkiye, Hiking

30 days, 525 kilometers. We had nearly no training and no experience doing long distance hiking. What we did have was a lot of time.

Travel log, Outdoors, Türkiye, Hiking

Travel life

Everyday things I'm grateful for after travelling for a year

Travel life

We take a so many things for granted when living in our own homes in the big cities. These are things I find that I appreciate the most about everyday city living now that I've been travelling.

Travel life

Madeira, Travel log

Making friends in Madeira: stray peacocks and a family of donkeys

Madeira, Travel log

Our first adventure in Madeira nearly ended with me throwing up in a stranger’s car, yet it was still better than the alternative of having to spend the entire night stranded in the dark.

Madeira, Travel log

Madeira, Outdoors

Madeira Hiking, Trail Running resources

Madeira, Outdoors

Resources to make your outdoor activity planning easier. Photos at the end for inspiration.

Madeira, Outdoors

Madeira, Travel log

Arriving in Madeira and first Impressions

Madeira, Travel log

After 4-5 hours of driving, we had only seen half of the coast of the island. But it felt like we’ve been in and out of many different worlds with varying rock formations, climates and flora.

Madeira, Travel log

YouTube for Tech

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Relationship between LLMs and YouTube

One of the first things you have to understand about YouTube as a LLM visibility source is that not all LLMs are created equal.

Here is a look at which LLM providers use YouTube effectively and which ones drag behind.

The shift in YouTube’s image as an educational platform

Before diving into the effects of AI in discoverability, it is worth understanding the shift in how people interact with YouTube as a video platform.

YouTube used to be the main channel for education and entertainment used by millions of people, a fact solidified by the months (an in some countries years) under lockdown during the COVID pandemic. But to nobody’s surprise, the way people educate themselves have changed with AI and the rise of the Short form video.

What I learned about YouTube for LLM Visibility

I’ve been looking into how having a YouTube channel contributes to LLM visibility particularly for developer facing tech companies.

To maximise the effectiveness, I’d like to share what I found in a structured way. I’ll be sharing my findings in the form of a series as I find the time to piece them together.

Life’s so easy!

Our lives are getting easier by the day, thanks to AI but our jobs are about to get much harder.

Producing content, doing post-production, creating visuals, editing used to be my main headaches. Now recording is much more forgiving and editing is so much easier.

BUT

I get the feeling that the playing field is shifting considerably.

Which videos to make? And other critical decisions

The first question every team asks when starting a YouTube channel is "what should we make?" It sounds simple but it's actually where most go wrong.

YouTube is your evergreen sales call

Most developer-facing companies treat YouTube the way they treat social media but YouTube works on an entirely different clock.