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2019-11-26 · announcement · John · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development (also: Nerdfighteria, Personal life, Internet & YouTube) · mode: Announcements · tags: calendar ritual, fundraising ask, civic or action cta, community lore

In a four-part update, John says he will take Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off, that his goal for the next decade is less of what the world calls work, and announces the 13th Project for Awesome (December 6-8, Indiegogo from December 3), kept separate from the Partners In Health Sierra Leone project, with a $150,000 match.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Four-part format; Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off

  • ★★ John says that this year (2019) both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall on Tuesdays and he will take both days off. — 00:00:09 · United States

00:00:15 — Burnout and John's goal to do less of what the world calls work

  • ★★ John says he has been thinking about burnout lately; he is not really burnt out now, but is starting to think differently about the role work plays in his life. — 00:00:15 · occupational burnout
  • ★★ John says that since he was about 22 he has worked many nights and most weekends; he doesn't recommend it and doesn't need to, but has kept doing it. — 00:00:24
  • ★★★ John says his central goal for the next decade is to do fewer things the world constructs as work and more valuable things not imagined as work: family time, dishes, sleep, reading, volunteering. — 00:00:32
  • ★ John says he is saying the goal out loud in the hope that it will make him accountable. — 00:00:47

00:00:49 — The Foundation to Decrease World Suck from 2007 joke to real charity; P4A's ten millionth dollar

00:01:24 — P4A 2019: dates, Indiegogo, perks, first-half charities, separation from the Sierra Leone project, unrestricted funds

  • ★★★ John announces the 13th annual Project for Awesome, from noon Eastern on Friday, December 6 to noon Eastern on Sunday, December 8, with the Indiegogo launching December 3. — 00:01:24 · Project for Awesome, Indiegogo
  • ★ John says there will be many amazing perks, with more on them next week (week of 2 December 2019). — 00:01:37 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says the Project for Awesome is volunteer-run, so apart from credit card fees and the cost of making and shipping physical perks, all donations go to charity. — 00:01:39 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ John says the first half of the P4A raises money for pre-selected Save the Children and Partners In Health, which the community has worked with for over a decade and which reach the most vulnerable. — 00:01:48 · Project for Awesome, Save the Children, Partners In Health, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John says this year's (2019) P4A fundraising is entirely separate from the brothers' project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone announced a couple of months ago. — 00:02:01 · Project for Awesome, Partners In Health, Sierra Leone
  • ★★ John says over 3,000 viewers have joined the brothers in donating to strengthen Sierra Leone's healthcare system, and they are grateful and excited to watch the progress. — 00:02:08 · Sierra Leone
  • ★★ John says the P4A, as in past years, raises unrestricted funds that Partners In Health and Save the Children can spend wherever most needed. — 00:02:19 · Partners In Health, Save the Children, Project for Awesome
  • ★ John gives examples: Partners In Health might need money to support a clinic in the Navajo Nation or to buy medical supplies in Haiti. (hedged) — 00:02:27 · Partners In Health
  • ★★★ John says the charities know better than the brothers where the funding gaps are and unrestricted funds are really important to charities, so the Sierra Leone project stays separate. — 00:02:31 · Partners In Health, Save the Children, Sierra Leone

00:02:41 — Aside: comments moving to a sidebar, and YouTube someday not existing

  • ★ John asks viewers with questions about this or anything to leave them in the comments. — 00:02:41
  • ★ John predicts YouTube will someday probably move comments to a sidebar, so his pointing down at the comments will look like pointing at his pants. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:44 · YouTube
  • ★ John adds that someday YouTube will not exist at all. — 00:02:51 · YouTube

00:02:55 — P4A second half: viewer videos and votes; the $150,000 match and the matching fund

  • ★★★ John says the P4A's second half funds charities chosen by viewers: make a great video for a charity, upload it on December 6, and if people vote for it, that charity might get a grant. — 00:02:55 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ John says he and Hank will match the first $150,000 raised in this year's (2019) Project for Awesome. — 00:03:19 · Hank Green, Project for Awesome
  • ★★ With no pressure, John asks viewers who would like to join the matching fund ($1,000 or more, per the description) to email ftdws@complexly.com; it really helps drive donations. — 00:03:24 · Project for Awesome

00:03:44 — Reindeer picture from the 2020 P4A calendar and sign-off

  • ★ As a reward for reaching the end, John shows a picture of himself and Hank as reindeer, one month of the 2020 Project for Awesome calendar. (playful) — 00:03:44 · Hank Green, Project for Awesome

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Mentioned

Central: Project for Awesome

Also: Projects: Foundation to Decrease World Suck

Organizations: Indiegogo · Partners In Health · Save the Children · YouTube

Terms: doobly-doo

Concepts: occupational burnout

Places: Haiti · Navajo Nation · Sierra Leone · United States

Events: Christmas Eve · New Year's Eve

Characters: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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