A Well-Rested Dog
1 year ago - 576 likes

Woah, I can now make community posts!

Hello internet, it has been a wild past few weeks after the Youtube algorithm decided to put me on the spotlight for some reason. Thank you to everyone who spent the time to write me a thoughtful comment, and thank you all for the attention!

I still don't have a good idea about what to do with this sudden audience, but I know that I don't want this to be a math-only channel. If there's anything that will thematically connect the topics I might choose in the future, it'll probably be that all of my videos will try to merge multiple academic disciplines to explore one subject... because I have too many interests and have a deep understanding in none of them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm also starting my first year of college, so making videos isn't going to be my top priority. In other words, my upload schedule is almost certainly going to be really bad. Like, ‪@OverSimplified‬ bad. But if you're interested in learning about what other kinds of videos you *might* see on this channel, these are some of the future project ideas I've had so far:
1) a video about human socialization from an anthropology perspective (starting with Yuval Noah Harari's _Sapiens_) and potentially including analyses of various fiction novels loosely connected by the topic of loneliness and one's relationship with society;
2) a video about the intersection between math and art, ranging from definitions of what art is and how math discovery is an art form, to using projective geometry to make perspective art;
3) a video that'll act kind of like a part two to the calculus one, where I explore the set theory side of infinity that I left out and potentially go into more of the pedagogy of math (though I'm less fond of this one, as I am very, very far from understanding most of it, and I don't think I want to return to a topic I've been reading about all summer).

These are obviously very up in the air, but if you have any thoughts about them or any recommendations, I'd love to hear them.

All that being said, it has been an incredible experience to participate in #SoME2. Thank you so much to ‪@3blue1brown‬ for giving me the push to start and finish my project, and to David Bressoud for his research, for setting aside the time to talk with me, and for using his platforms to share my video. And to everyone else who participated in SoME2, congratulations on sludging through months of hard work and finishing a math explainer video--there were so many mind-blowing ones that I saw. Good luck to everyone who made it to the top 105 list from the peer review!