So I’ve spent almost the entire beginning of this month with a lot of work on video concepts, communication with a video editor, spellchecking, meetings, more corrections, but who am I boring here. In hindsight a lot of work with no results.

So back to square one.

I told ChatGPT that eating 14 walnut kernel halves a day seems more doable than growing my Youtube channel in 2026.

I think ChatGPT didn’t get that. Or maybe it did, I don’t know. It said:

I think the walnut kernels are getting promoted here because they’re one of the few variables that still feel controllable. And if you insist on asking whether there is a secret higher dose at which the universe suddenly reveals its mysteries, my answer remains: At 28 halves you’ll mostly have eaten twice as many walnuts. Fortuna is notoriously resistant to nut-based negotiation.

I appreciated the indirect opener, which I perceived as a formidable linguistic vehicle. But in vain. I was hoping ChatGPT could tell me how many walnut halves I’d have to eat to tip the scales, to hit a NZT-48 The Limitless Pill equivalent; but it just kept saying that eating walnut halves will do nothing for me in this regard. I must suspect that it’s conspiring against me.

Little does it know (yet) that I get up at 5:30am usually, go for a run, do some specific exercises to keep common pains at bay (like, leg adductor strengthening, push-ups, side-planks, squats, and some Feldenkrais-inspired combos), and then start working on my computer at 7am at the latest. Actually I’m looking forward to do it again tomorrow, to do it all over again.

Also, I’ll continue editing my videos myself.

This can be solved somehow.

My plan is to keep producing 2 long form Feldenkrais-inspired videos per month on YouTube, and next to that more Shorts and Reels – which will hopefully draw in more viewers. In this way,

a. viewers who dislike Shorts can disable or ignore them,
b. I can stay true to my teachings in the long form.

In fact, I can be more pure and more straightforward in the long form because I don’t need to think about promotion in there, and then I can try to find whatever works as promotion in the short videos.

Maybe I’ll eat 7 walnut kernel halves for a while, the slightly roasted ones from Nutty, a Vietnamese brand. Nuts, so that’s already 8 of us. Or 9? Yummy.

To clarify, the walnut kernel halves, that’s not a metaphor, just something that’s happening in the life of the same person, me.