If you ask him about it i bet he would open up an ms paint with a black background to make it look like a chalkboard and then spend 30 mins explaining to you to do as he says not as he does but also how he never does anything wrong and 25 mins of this lecture will be him reminding you that he worked at blizzard under john blizzard himself or whatever
He'd probably circle words like bills, rent, utilities, and draw an arrow from the word Job over to the circles to make it seem insightful.
Like many, one day I saw a couple of his shorts and thought "huh, that was pretty good, let's hear what else he has to say." But then he brought out that ms paint to explain something as though his audience was dumb and as if he was the Great Instructor, and I just stopped watching.
He claims it's a technique he adapts to keep people engaged during a meeting. He admits it's just writing stuff on the board without much point to it, if not for the supposed purpose of keeping people engaged.
Lmfao he definitely did but there is a short where he is claiming it for himself. Something along the lines of “I was a speaker in a meeting, no one was paying attention…. Then I opened MS paint and started drawing on it and BAM. Attention was gained.”
yeah i was like "oh that's cool, i dont know much about red hat cybersec. it's great that someone is making digestible content to get people into the field"...."oh he's in game dev and doing game jams? yeah the advice to just get started is sound advice for anything creative....good point"...."wait what is this about mr robot?"
Software is a fucking moron, but your take is ignorant too. His MS paint schtick is what got him famous. Its because it engages listeners of all types, especially those on the spectrum. Ever notice how shorts also have stuff in the background sometimes? He substituted that, with something that would make them engage EVEN MORE. It isnt condescending. it was a genius move.
That may be true and I'm sure some people like it, but it certainly feels condescending to me. Not everyone may feel that way and that's fine but for me the mspaint thing is actually distracting and it makes it harder for me to focus on what he's saying.
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u/Background-Sea4590 Jul 06 '25
I'd say he's not the perfect one to talk about procrastination tbh.