Some readers miss my long-form blog articles, where I update my life. As I try to ramp up my YouTube presence to create an alternative marketing funnel, most of my effort has been put into creating video content three times a week. The material is designed to drive more traffic to my previews, so I'm not doing personal updates for a while. So let's do a detailed update this week and skip the videos for one round.
To start with, folks might wonder why I'm becoming a YouTube influencer. The main reason is that my gig at Temasek Poly has been paused for one semester, and there's no guarantee that I will be given more gigs moving forward. AI deployment will make in-house lecturers more efficient, so it will be harder to get gigs moving forward. Still, I might be wrong, so I may embark on
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