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John, You're Doing Great

2024-12-02 · letter vlog · Hank · 2:55 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube (also: Projects, Books & writing) · mode: Advice & reviews · tags: self promotion

On a Monday when John is finishing the final draft of Everything Is Tuberculosis and will skip his video, Hank offers a playlist of good recent YouTube videos (Nathan Zed, Camille, Technology Connections), plugs the last day of the Good Store 25% sale, and tells John he is doing a good job.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — John is finalizing Everything Is Tuberculosis; the 'first pass' is the last chance for edits

  • ★★ Hank says John will not make a video tomorrow because he is finalizing the final draft of his book Everything Is Tuberculosis, and Hank is happy he is getting it done. — 00:00:00 · John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis
  • ★★ Hank explains that the 'first pass', ridiculously named, is the last time an author can make edits to a book; the passes after it are just copy edits. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — No vlogs tomorrow; Hank's playlist of recent good YouTube videos

  • ★★ Hank says neither John nor he will make a vlog tomorrow, though Hank is making one today. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Hank says he has put together a playlist of some of the best YouTube videos he has seen in the last week or so for viewers to watch instead. — 00:00:29 · YouTube
  • ★★ Hank especially recommends a Nathan Zed video ("You'll Never Be Ready"): Nathan always makes him feel Nathan knows far more about aesthetics, and this video is an explosion of aesthetic and very wise. — 00:00:55
  • ★★ Hank recommends a video by Camille called 'Oh Rats, It's the Trolley Problem', marvelling that it exists. — 00:00:55
  • ★★ Hank recommends a Technology Connections video on how people finally did Christmas lights right, joking that the lights are already sold out because its maker is so powerful. (playful) — 00:00:55

00:01:35 — Last day of the Good Store 25% sale and mystery socks

  • ★★★ Hank says Monday is the last chance to use the SAVE25 code for 25% off everything at good.store. — 00:01:35 · Good Store
  • ★★ Hank lists Good Store goods: the Dot's Day Out puzzle, plastic-free shampoo bars, good-smelling soaps, stationery printed in Missoula, Montana, and tea and coffee. — 00:01:35 · Good Store, Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank says this is Good Store's biggest discount of the holiday season, and tomorrow is too late to use it. — 00:02:04 · Good Store
  • ★★ Hank says, having just checked, that the 12-pack of mystery socks is still available for $45 after the discount. — 00:02:04 · Good Store

00:02:33 — Hank encourages John and points to the book's pre-order

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description asks viewers to buy Good Store gift cards at 25% off and give them away throughout the rest of the year. — video description · Good Store

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Central: Everything Is Tuberculosis · Good Store

Also: aesthetics · Camille · Copy editing · Missoula, Montana · Nathan Zed · Technology Connections · trolley problem · YouTube

Only in the description or credits: gift card

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