The Best (And Worst) Parts of 2018

Newsletter 2019-01-07

Now that 2018 is officially in the record books, it's time to look back at the places I failed and the places I failed by a little less. A few times, I didn’t even fail at all, but only because I moved the goalposts. It’s okay to cheat at your milestones if you don’t remember what you were shooting for in the first place. The key to success is a bad memory.

2018 YouTube Subscriber Goal: 100,000

2018 Ending YouTube Subscriber Count: 12,000

I only fell short by a few orders of magnitude. I picked 100,000 as a goal because I knew of a YouTuber who was making a living off that many subscribers. For the life of me, I can’t remember who it was. Clearly, he made quite an impression on me and is the kind of person I should base my life on. But even though I’ll never be able to support myself with YouTube, I still figured I could do better than the 300 subscribers I started with in 2018. I did, but not by a whole lot.

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