I have the impression that very smart people have many more ideas than they can write down & explain adequately, and that these kinds of ideas especially get developed in & forgotten after conversations among smart people.
For some people, their comparative advantage could be to sit in conversations between smart people, record & take notes, and summarize the outcome of the conversations (or, alternatively, just interview smart people, let them explain their ideas & ask for feedback, and then write them down so that others understand them).
If you interview smart people on a video and publish it on your channel, it will be almost like Joe Rogan, who is quite popular. If you prioritize “smart” over “popular”, and interview some of them multiple times (under the assumption they have many more ideas than they can write down), it may be less generally popular, but also more original, so you could create your own niche. In addition, you could have a blog with short summaries of the interviews, with the videos embedded (which would make it easier to move to another platform if YouTube bans you).
I think this would be awesome. If you are tempted to try it, and only wait for encouragement, then by all means go ahead, you have my blessing! (I would be somewhat tempted myself, but my spoken English is not very good.)
By the way, the ideas don’t even have to be that special. Someone explaining their daily job can be already interesting enough. I mean, worst case, you don’t care, so you skip this specific video. That means, the potential material would not be scarce, and you are only limited by the time you want to spend doing this.
I regularly think about this. My big question is how to judge if your comparative advantage is that instead of doing the research/having the ideas yourself.
I have the impression that very smart people have many more ideas than they can write down & explain adequately, and that these kinds of ideas especially get developed in & forgotten after conversations among smart people.
For some people, their comparative advantage could be to sit in conversations between smart people, record & take notes, and summarize the outcome of the conversations (or, alternatively, just interview smart people, let them explain their ideas & ask for feedback, and then write them down so that others understand them).
If you interview smart people on a video and publish it on your channel, it will be almost like Joe Rogan, who is quite popular. If you prioritize “smart” over “popular”, and interview some of them multiple times (under the assumption they have many more ideas than they can write down), it may be less generally popular, but also more original, so you could create your own niche. In addition, you could have a blog with short summaries of the interviews, with the videos embedded (which would make it easier to move to another platform if YouTube bans you).
I think this would be awesome. If you are tempted to try it, and only wait for encouragement, then by all means go ahead, you have my blessing! (I would be somewhat tempted myself, but my spoken English is not very good.)
By the way, the ideas don’t even have to be that special. Someone explaining their daily job can be already interesting enough. I mean, worst case, you don’t care, so you skip this specific video. That means, the potential material would not be scarce, and you are only limited by the time you want to spend doing this.
I regularly think about this. My big question is how to judge if your comparative advantage is that instead of doing the research/having the ideas yourself.