I'm a full-time Uber driver, YouTuber, and Twitch streamer. This is day 4,991, January 27, 2025. What I'm most hyped about today is my music. I have a song called This Is Your Mom that's actually going off, at least compared to any of my other tracks. It's getting some listens on Amazon Music, and I'm so pumped about my music today. I just submitted two more albums, so it's on my Spotify, my YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and SoundCloud. I just rejoined SoundCloud Pro and uploaded an entire dance music album there that I put out today, and these will be out on Spotify too.
My yoga instructor inspired a song I made for her called Petra's House Party, and I finally got to show her the song today. I've had a breakthrough. I know what I want to do with my music now. What I really want to do is show how I make a song in under 10 minutes. I start with a blank Ableton template, throw together a song in 10 minutes, and put it out, because that's amazing. Nobody makes music like that. What I want is sheer quantity of different songs and different sounds. In my experience, the average person is actually pretty easy to please with music, and I want to show people how easy it is to throw some stuff together and make your own music.
I want to inspire more people to make music. Right now people think it's really hard to make music, but it's not. And it's really cool to go around listening to your own music. I love going around listening to my own music. It's almost all I listen to, which seems like advanced narcissism, only making your own music and then listening to only your own music back.
Creating Content Fast
We've got some big news in ICP today. We got the first AI agent on DeepSeek running on ICP, and Dom just put out a post about caffeine.ai today. So I'm going to see if I can crank out a song, a crypto video or two, and this vlog all in an hour of real time. To me, what's really incredible is being able to create content quickly. Anyone can take 100 hours to make a video or a song, but can you crank out a decent video in 10 minutes? That's what almost nobody can do. Lots of people record videos and stuff, but can you just take an idea and instantly execute it?
I'm so happy to be live and seeing the new Twitch chatters. I'm thinking maybe one of these days I'll finally make Twitch partner. It's amazing how persistent you have to be. I've gotten hardly any action on my music from the algorithms themselves since I first published music back in 2017 or 2018, after eight years of making music. I'm finally getting a little bit of organic love from the algorithm, and I'm pumped about that today.
Loving a Healthy, Active Body
I went to yoga this morning and I'm so grateful. My back was, I think, in a little back spasm, and it was crooked. I'd been standing off to one side for a few days and it hurt. I did yoga and got a massage. Then for the last two days I didn't do any yoga or massage or exercise except walking. Today I went and did a power yoga flow and then played tennis right afterward. I lost seven to five, and I'm like, I should have won that. I had everything in place to win it. But I was thinking, God, I love being healthy. I love being healthy enough to run around and play on the tennis court and go do a power yoga class. I love having a healthy, active body, and I have no interest in dealing with an unhealthy, inactive one.
For the future, I want to make sure I take some time to enjoy my healthy, active body every day. Where I see a lot of people go wrong, and where I've gone wrong in the past, is not making taking care of my body a priority. In my experience, it's worth devoting 10-plus hours a day to taking care of your body: eight-plus hours of sleep first and foremost, then at least two hours a day of physical activity, eating something you enjoy, and being physically active. And to me, no more than an hour, maybe a couple or three hours, of sitting a day.
I have this studio here, and I stand up when I film my videos and when I use the computer. But the day my back started to spasm a little, I think it was because I was standing really rigidly in here while streaming. So you just want to be mobile, move, and stay mobile. The worst thing I see is people who are sick and have disabled bodies, often disabled because of their own lifestyle choices, because they decided it was more important to work and make more money than to take a little time to exercise. It was more important to work on a side hustle than to get sleep, eat whole plant foods, and take a walk. That's been my experience watching how it plays out.
The Importance of Play
To me, it's really important to play too, to have fun. That's what I love about my music. What I really want to capture with my music is the playing and the having fun that I'm doing, and I want to put it in a nice watchable format. Under 10 minutes is an amazing challenge, because when you tell somebody you made an entire song in under 10 minutes, even regular music producers are like, what? And a regular person is like, what, I thought I wouldn't even know where to start. But when you see me make a song, you'll see how easy it is, because anyone can do this. So I'm going to try that today.
I named a song after a girl I know in AA today. She was born about 10 years before me, and what I love about her is that she's so fun and playful. To me, one of the biggest signs of youth is how fun and playful you are. I watched a bunch of kids and teenagers ice skating, and there were these teen boys showing off skating very impressively, but they were playing around, having fun, screwing around. They weren't taking life so seriously. To me, the sign that you're losing your vitality is when you stop doing that.
The beauty of being an adult is that you can switch play and seriousness on and off. Yes, there's a time to be serious. When you're driving is not a time to screw around, because somebody could die. But when you're in your house making music, that's the time to play and screw around. When you're out throwing a football, there are so many opportunities to play and have fun. In 2024, my New Year's resolution was to make sure to emphasize and focus on play. At the time I played some more video games, but then I realized I needed a better way to play. To me, playing sports is a great way to play. Creating something like music or videos is a great way to play. And so is being playful within the stuff you do, like making crypto videos with mom jokes in the middle of them, or "that's what she said," or a song I named This Is Your Mom. People see that song name and they laugh at it, and it's easier to get recommended and clicked on. When you're screwing around having fun, life naturally just flows for you.
I don't have a New Year's resolution this year, because I'm just intending to keep making sure I'm playing. I read this in a Seth book, and it said the first sign of a loss of vitality, before you have any health problems, is often that you stop playing, you take life seriously, and you start focusing on your problems. At that point you manifest more and more problems. What I see in my kids is that they play so much. Everything's a play, everything's a joke. Yes, there's a time to be serious and a time to play, but I think a lot of us are doing too much serious and not enough play.
I'm so grateful that my work gives me the chance to play. But you can play no matter where you're at. If you're at a job, there are opportunities to play, to be fun, to joke, to screw around. And if not at that job, maybe you should get another one. I'm glad that what I do gives me so many chances to play, and I intend to just lead my life as an example. You can follow along with this journey on my Life playlist. I'm so grateful to have this message to share today, and right after this I'm going to do some more playing.