#284: Thomas Frank – The Truth About Having 2.76 Million Subscribers

Thomas Frank is a YouTuber. His main channel has 2.75 million subscribers. His second channel (about Notion) recently crossed 100,000 subscribers. And in today’s episode, we dove deep into YouTube, how to have a better title and thumbnail, why he started a new channel, burnout, what most people get wrong about learning, and much more… (0:00) Intro (1:27) 2.75 Million Subscribers (3:33) Design (7:28) Title/Thumbnail Best Practices (13:15) Early Days of Creating Online (22:23) Why Videos Instead Of Writing? (23:48) Working For His Favorite Creators (26:42) Why Do Schools Block YouTube? (27:33) Obsession (32:00) New Channel / Burnout (37:39) Changing Locations (47:43) Tracking Exponential Numbers (51:25) Issues With Getting Big On YouTube? (55:50) Thomas’ Impossible List & Generalization (1:00:20) Challenge (1 Percent Rule) - Resources Mentioned: Crash Course Study Skills – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7CwqNHn_Ns&list=PLx65qkgCWNJKHcoJzgJ8xd97JbS64e4xE This Is Why You Aren’t Inspired – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAWe4Qq-Rp0 Survivorship bias – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Thomas Frank’s Impossible List – https://collegeinfogeek.com/about/meet-the-author/my-impossible-list/ - Thomas’ Links  YouTube (Main Channel):  @Thomasfrank    YouTube (Second Channel):  @ThomasFrankExplains    Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomFrankly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomfrankly/ Website: https://thomasjfrank.com/ - SPONSOR: This episode is brought to you by My First Million. This is the podcast that I listen to and recommend whenever I want to learn more about business, technology, or the future. Sam Parr and Shaan Puri are hilarious, informative, and interesting. Check it out! - My Links ✉️ Newsletter: https://dannymiranda.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/dannymiranda 🎥 YouTube: https://youtube.com/dannymiranda 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/heydannymiranda 🕺 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@heydannymiranda