THIS, all I heard from Ali was me me me me, if this fails its all about me and I have real people workong for me but its all about me me me
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Linus knows his channel is about the tech and he's clearly into what he's doing. Ali, on the other hand, makes his channel about himself because he knows in the back of his mind that the only reason he has clout is because he's an idol for the Pakistani/Indians. His lack of passion is visible because why would you be passionate about something when you'll get likes and views no matter what you put out. There's nothing particularly interesting about him or his content but at least in the old days it was presented in a more digestible way. Nowadays it's just run of the mill garbage entrepreneur mindset nonsense.
By the way, in the recent podcast with his brother he stated that he wants to sign up to Harvard because he thinks it's gonna make him interesting again. Imagine having the resources he has and the first thing on your mind is "I should go back to school so I can make content". He's getting jittery about his declining view count and thinks he can repeat the success he had back when he was in medical school. I've never seen a less inspiring (and inspired) youtuber. Team of 20 people and this is the idea you come up with? He literally can't think of anything because there's nothing interesting about him other than the fact that he went to some "prestigious" school. That was the initial draw and that's what he's going back to. You can't not laugh at it.
KEEP IN MIND this guy makes a literal truckload of cash per cohort teaching people how to YouTube and his idea for revamping his content/life and gaining relevancy is going to school again at almost 30 years old. He's gonna be that geek that the Harvard rowing team makes fun of. He's going about this thing like a fish stranded on shore flapping around for dear life.
Maybe before signing up to Harvard you should learn to film a video that's not overexposed and with crap audio. YouTube expert making millions from teaching gullible fans the path to YouTube success and you can't even film yourself properly. Absolute clown.
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Lord the lack of worldliness to think signing up for a Harvard course will make you interesting. 
I assume he's considering one of those business courses with Harvard branding that entrepreneurs do so they can claim Harvard on their CV and Linked In?
I assume he's considering one of those business courses with Harvard branding that entrepreneurs do so they can claim Harvard on their CV and Linked In?He needs a lpt of therapy, always seeking validation like his life depends on it, who is Ali behind all these accolades? What a bland bland person if he bases himself on his degree and what ppl think of him.
Its like he goes on about the entrepreneur lifestyle but still doesnt understand. In his video he blatany said the podcast was just another way of making money its not like he was excited about it at all
No wonder his viewership is declining, he has nothing to add anymore and is getting boring and stale. Is a bland person with no direction. He just wants money and will do anything to get it. Its not like he grew up poor.
Ali, go seek therapy.
Its like he goes on about the entrepreneur lifestyle but still doesnt understand. In his video he blatany said the podcast was just another way of making money its not like he was excited about it at all
No wonder his viewership is declining, he has nothing to add anymore and is getting boring and stale. Is a bland person with no direction. He just wants money and will do anything to get it. Its not like he grew up poor.
Ali, go seek therapy.
He can't be serious that after 6 years of medical school, ditching his entire career because the USMLE was too hard for him, and moving to London to become a businessman, he wants to go to Havard 
Deluded to the extreme.
Deluded to the extreme.I imagine he's thinking about one of the executive courses from the Harvard Business School, or a course like this one from Harvard Extension School.
He can't make decent profit margins, he doesn't control operating expenses, he employs way too many people.
Definitely a wonderful match for MBA studies on Harvard.
"My name is Ali Abdaal and I am Harvard Business School MBA student and entrepreneur living in London, here is my latte macchiato and you my dear Asian friend better go and buy one of my life-changing courses. If you do so, you will be able to afford coffee in London too. That is the white-privileged life!"
Definitely a wonderful match for MBA studies on Harvard.
"My name is Ali Abdaal and I am Harvard Business School MBA student and entrepreneur living in London, here is my latte macchiato and you my dear Asian friend better go and buy one of my life-changing courses. If you do so, you will be able to afford coffee in London too. That is the white-privileged life!"
It's a shame because I used to love listening to Not overthinking when they would discuss topics like communication styles and I would genuinely feel like I learnt something. But these days it's just about Ali's life choices which tbh isn't an issue, but the way he goes about it and his reasoning is just off-putting. Like I get that he needs to stay relevant to a new audience but I just can't shake off this vibe of inauthenticity. The corporate vibe of having twenty people on his team doesn't help his brand at all, I feel like he's surrounded by yes men who are taking advantage of him/his youtube fame. But then again he seems to enjoy having all that validation and being the boss of a business even though I'm still not sure what he's actually selling.
On a side note I've noticed Kharma medic doing the same type of clickbaity/productivity type video, I really hope that he doesn't go further down that route.
On a side note I've noticed Kharma medic doing the same type of clickbaity/productivity type video, I really hope that he doesn't go further down that route.
Not trying to get too personal but your world might be a bit too small if "Not Overthinking" is your source of education or entertainment. There are infinitely more interesting, dynamic and educational podcasts out there with real people who talk about real things instead of two stuttering wet rags who turn what should be a 10 minute discussion into 40 minutes of lazily droning on with barely articulate speech.
Ouch. Well tbh I wouldn't be in this thread if I didn't have some interest in their content in the first place, you know. I liked Not overthinking because initially they seemed like two "normal" british dudes just talking about stuff, I agree that there are other podcasts out there but I sometimes find it more difficult to relate to people who are decades older than me, eg. two American businessmen in their forties talking about stuff that happened probably when I was a toddler, that seems like worlds away from me.
Doesn't need to be American businessmen, plenty of people in their 20s and 30s have podcasts about any topic imaginable. However, unlike those two who clearly struggle to even fill those 40 minutes, they actually have some life experience outside of academics and neater perspectives on life. I choose to participate in this thread not because I have an interest in Ali's content—which you can get in a much much better form from other YT channels—but because it's actually a problem that he's creating this pyramid scheme and personality cult. This forum like any other website is indexed on Google and I want people who search his name and potentially consider throwing £5k his way to read some of these posts first before they get high off his bullshit sales copy.
I’m on this thread because I hope Ali or his team see this thread and take the constructive feedback. Not much point in criticising people for things they can’t change. If people want to spend money on him, good luck to them.
No point judging people for what they choose to watch/listen. I also watched a couple of Not Overthinking videos on YT. Not all our time needs to be spent learning from people better than us. Sometimes it’s interesting to see how others think even if you disagree with them. That’s what makes this thread interesting.
I can't imagine anything worse than giving up my independence and freedom as a adult to be back in school/university, with pressured socialisation. I do think it says a lot about him that he thinks this is important. At this age and with everything he has done so far, I feel sorry for him if he thinks he needs more friends and going to Uni is the way to do it.
No point judging people for what they choose to watch/listen. I also watched a couple of Not Overthinking videos on YT. Not all our time needs to be spent learning from people better than us. Sometimes it’s interesting to see how others think even if you disagree with them. That’s what makes this thread interesting.
I find it really odd as well that he wants to go to Harvard to meet "cool people". He seems elitist as well.
I can't imagine anything worse than giving up my independence and freedom as a adult to be back in school/university, with pressured socialisation. I do think it says a lot about him that he thinks this is important. At this age and with everything he has done so far, I feel sorry for him if he thinks he needs more friends and going to Uni is the way to do it.
He has read this thread in the past, and didn't take on the feedback.
Frankly I think Ali is too consumed with the hustle entepreneur narrative he has created for himself to take the necessary step back and learn and grow.
I haven't seen LinusTech. But I do think if Ali was just around people who he was having fun with, his vlogs would be more watchable. The Monaco vlog is a good example of how even being in a great setting to make an interesting vlog, you can end up making a really boring vlog because it seemed unrelatable and like an informercial for himself about how cool he is being in Monaco. Whereas a vlog like the vagabrothers did in Monaco shows that being relatable to your audience and having fun in your videos makes the vlogs watchable.
The problem is he doesn't know what "fun" is. He's read so many self help books that now he spouts the daily grind of work as being "fun", going to Harvard as being "fun". He rents a $15k/month office just to have people around him cause it's "fun". When you lack meaningful relationships and spend your entire time buried in self help literature while serendipitously ending up making a few million pounds with no risk, it's sensible to think his view of life in general is highly distorted—from the way he approaches money, work and love to wacky tit like watching movies at 5x and wife email address. He's literally never had to worry about paying bills and debt. There's some degree of mental gymnastics going on there that neither of us is able to comprehend BUT at the same time he fully rejects input from anyone else who tells him "Hey, this is wrong" because it doesn't come from a self help guru. He waxes on and on about enjoying the journey and loving the process but from the perspective of a coddled schoolboy with money pouring in from all directions. Someone with so much lack of perspective has no place trying to carve out a niche as a guru in anything.
Ali's background is grammar school straight into Cambridge university. He has probably not spent much time mixing with working class people apart from possibly time with nurses in the NHS but given that he's turned his back on that I'm not sure he enjoyed it. A lot of people who are in Oxbridge for their formative years get this attitude, they only want to mix with people of similar class and education levels. Havard is probably his next step in creating a curated circle of people which meet his high education standards after his London experiment.
His Monaco vlog was just badly made and boring. He's gone to one of the richest cities in the world and then decides to do a tour of a bunch of different Starbucks whilst he does "work" and waits for the bloke he's interviewing to give him the 2 hours for the podcast. tit content. Why would you travel all that way to drink a drink you could just go down the road to pick up? Go to a local coffee shop and try something a bit different.
He's a boring human being without medicine, no one wants to see him sit in Zoom calls, nod at people he's interviewing, or drink lattes whilst he replies to emails. It's dull, he has no actual skills to show off like art or wood working or music. He's just got medicine and he's just abandoned that.
In his last update video he said he spoke to a CEO or something and he was like how much passion are you really giving to it, what's that 2 days a week giving back to you and it sounded like he decided to give it up because his heart wasn't really in it.
It's probably better for the NHS he leaves also. Don't want me ot my family practised on by some out of touch spoiled rich kid doing it part time because he thinks it makes his coding more interesting.
Gosh he’s done an amazing job in talking himself out of a job and scoring an own goal. He spent 8 years training to be a medic (6 Uni years and 2 FY years). Coming out to the public about how medicine isn’t his passion hence he was justified to leave it naturally means that people who have heard him will remember him as the guy who doesn’t like medicine. I agree with you - no-one wants to put their trust in someone who doesn’t want to do the job. In Diary of CEO video, he made a comment about how he knows intellectually he should feel bad when people are suffering and so he does, rather than naturally feeling bad. His bio in YT videos still reads as “doctor working in Cambridge”, probably because writing “just another YouTuber trying to make money” doesn’t have the same reach. I don’t think he appreciates what he’s given up until it’s gone!
As a teacher working with sixth formers, it boils my piss that this spoiled idiot got a place at Cambridge and then pissed it all away to do YouTube. Kids go through so much to secure a place at medical school, it could have gone to someone who actually deserved it.