Lessons learned from one year on YouTube

My blog post on getting scooped: https://magpiepinette.substack.com/p/... Blog post on bad-faith arguments: https://magpiepinette.substack.com/p/... Blog post on my grudge against Patreon: https://magpiepinette.substack.com/p/... My Ko-Fi (including Discord tier): https://ko-fi.com/readingisaskill I'm on Twitter now: https://x.com/MagpiePinette My consulting page: https://magpiepinette.com/ My animal arts & crafts channel (on hiatus):    / @edgubi   Companion channel for short readings aloud:    / @magpierecites   Some of my favorite novels/novelas: Bookshop.org list: https://bookshop.org/lists/my-favorit... Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton – https://amzn.to/4wIi1FH Silas Marner (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot – https://amzn.to/4bqgagT Clarges (To Live Forever) by Jack Vance – https://amzn.to/45mahxr The Great Divorce by CS Lewis – https://amzn.to/4sxYfLE The Magicians by Lev Grossman – https://amzn.to/4b5rMWg Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – https://amzn.to/4fOQbT6 A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason – https://amzn.to/4n58OUw Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov – https://amzn.to/4oLYT70 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – https://amzn.to/3PQj8ne Some of my favorite short story collections: Bookshop.org list: https://bookshop.org/lists/my-favorit... Collected Fictions by JL Borges trans. Andrew Hurley – https://amzn.to/4f7lDv7 Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men: Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye trans. Jack Zipes – https://amzn.to/4pAoIHG Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang – https://amzn.to/44DmbD1 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu – https://amzn.to/4pC8Kgf The Moon Moth and Other Stories by Jack Vance – https://amzn.to/3T9RdQs Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens by Eleanor Arnason – https://amzn.to/44H1AxC The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith – https://amzn.to/45l20tC The Collected Short Stories of Saki (Wordsworth Classics) by Hector Hugh Munro – https://amzn.to/4fnqU0s Some of my favorite work of nonfiction: Bookshop.org list: https://bookshop.org/lists/my-favorit... Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – https://amzn.to/4vcOQL1 Reflections by Idries Shah – https://amzn.to/4ysxGuv The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler (out of print, this is currently cheapest of many editions) – https://amzn.to/4tHFJRx The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler – https://amzn.to/4oAIli9 Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray – https://amzn.to/4alMcd0 Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse – https://amzn.to/4bE9KK5 The Logic of Liberty: Reflections and Rejoinders by Michael Polanyi – https://amzn.to/4tnxXeY The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C Scott (mentioned) – https://amzn.to/4sgfn7z The Secret Lives Of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals by Merlin Tuttle – https://amzn.to/4tuK1LF Kea, Bird of Paradox: The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot by Judy Diamond and Alan B. Bond (mentioned, not by name) – https://amzn.to/4dv71p1 The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery – https://amzn.to/4eDz3P8 Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low – https://amzn.to/3QoU3iS Ascent of Birds: How Modern Science Is Revealing Their Story by John Reilly – https://amzn.to/4tzneOO Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff – https://amzn.to/4sMTugg The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich – https://amzn.to/4tpJ738 Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States by David Hackett Fischer – https://amzn.to/4wORwP0 Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations by Norman Davies – https://amzn.to/3S2pmAX Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History by Thomas J. Barfield – https://amzn.to/4uXJbHA Some of my favorite collections of poetry: Bookshop.org list: https://bookshop.org/lists/my-favorit... Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – https://amzn.to/45fJZgp The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou – https://amzn.to/4vpBQ3Z Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, ed. Alexander Coleman – https://amzn.to/4wWD6wl Rudyard Kipling Collected Poems (Wordsworth Poetry Library) – https://amzn.to/4wc0JRD Selected Poems by Bertolt Brecht – https://amzn.to/4h9hrwv