My blog writings are hosted on https://blog.stevengong.co/ where I write monthly recaps.
From Welcome Blog
My guiding principles for writing a newsletter I would read:
- Be clear and concise. This is a newsletter, not a fiction novel. Don’t waste people’s time.
- Add nice visuals (personal images + emojis) so reading doesn’t get boring.
- Always strive to share interestingness. Entertain, inspire, teach. That also means sharing failures when they arise.
Blog Editions, and core ideas that I discuss and I want to remember:
- February 2023
- Building in Public is the single most important idea that changed the way I think about building, introduced to me by Richard Hamming (introduced to me by Andrej Karpathy’s blog)
- March 2023
- How it feels to have a YouTube video blow up for the first time! 200K+ views
- On Success: Don’t focus on chasing views, chase on making better videos that get you more views
- August 2023
- I talk about receiving an internship offer at NVIDIA! But remember to maintain the Day 1 Mindset, because every good thing that comes to you can be taken away any time
- January 2024
- How much I love working on YouTube, and the desire to Ship
- “I just want to sit down and make YouTube videos.”
- February 2024
- Winning EV Grant, and making my passion (YouTube) my full-time job
- Apple and Neuralink interview: “As I prepared for the Neuralink interview, I found myself operating at the limits of human capabilities.” I want to solve Hard Problems
- What role do I play as a YouTuber? What purpose do my videos serve? The Role of my YouTube Videos
- March 2024
- Choose the right level of Abstraction for the problem (C++ vs. Python)
- How I hated traditionally Leadership, but now really enjoy technical leadership
- May 2024
- I need to drastically close down the Feedback Loop