2025 YouTube Video Roadmap & Accountability Dashboard
2025 YouTube Video Roadmap & Accountability Dashboard
North Star Goal 🚀 — Publish 50 videos in 2025 (⏱ 1 video / week). 10 are already live → 40 to go.
Why it matters: Teaching sharpens my own understanding, helps busy engineers, and builds a public body of work that compounds over time.
⏳ Live Progress (checked every Sunday evening, updated in the table)
Updated every Sunday evening
| Metric | Target | Current | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Videos published | 50 | 15 | –35 |
| Week streak | n/a | 7 |
🎯 Outcome KPIs
| Priority | KPI | Verification Method |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | ≥ 1 video / week | YouTube Studio publish date |
| P2 | 40 new videos by 31-Dec-2025 | Roadmap table shows 50 total rows marked Published |
🔄 Weekly Workflow
- Sunday PM (30 min)
- Update progress tables
- Fill metrics
- Choose next “Focus Episode” (see algorithm below)
- Mon-Sun
- Script ✍️
- Slides 🎨
- Record 🎥
- Edit 🖥️
- Publish 🚀
Note: Skipped steps require a public blameless post-mortem in the next Sunday entry.
🧭 Focus-Episode Selection Algorithm
When in doubt, follow this deterministic queue to prevent decision-fatigue from sabotaging momentum.
IF any item in **WIP** has Status = "drafting" OR "editing" → pick that.
ELSE pull the top card from **Backlog** (highest Priority number).
🗂 Kanban
📺 Published Videos
| # | Title | Pub Date | Link | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2017 MoE | 2025-06-01 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 2 | Divide and Conquer — Leetcode, Productivity, Fitness, Power | 2025-05-25 | ▶︎ | Thoughts |
| 3 | Understanding Performer | 2025-05-18 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 4 | Self-Communication | 2025-05-11 | ▶︎ | Thoughts |
| 4 | Understanding 1991 MOE | 2025-05-04 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 5 | Transformer and Its Use in RecSys | 2025-04-27 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 6 | Understanding Linformer | 2025-04-20 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 7 | Let’s Chat about Dune | 2025-03-09 | ▶︎ | Book Review |
| 8 | Attention Part 1 | 2025-03-09 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 9 | PyTorch Dataset Memory Duplicate | 2025-02-16 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 10 | Understanding Low GPU Usage | 2025-02-09 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 11 | LLM Gestalt: From ChatGPT to Silicon | 2025-02-02 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 12 | PyTorch Part 1 – Bare-Min Text Class | 2025-01-20 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 13 | Creating GPU VM in AWS | 2025-01-05 | ▶︎ | ML / RecSys |
| 14 | Debugging my 2024 Self | 2025-01-25 | ▶︎ | Reflection |
🛠 Work in Progress (1-2 max)
| Title | Status | Target Pub Date | Next Micro-Task |
|---|---|---|---|
| Understanding git | scripting | 2025-06-08 | Research git internals |
| K8s basics | scripting | 2025-06-15 | Research k8s internals |
📥 Backlog and ideas
| Rank | Title | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automating every-day decisions | Thoughts | Decision fatigue and automation |
| 2 | What can you do with github? | Dev Tools | Beyond code hosting |
| 3 | Understanding Huggingface/Github business model | Business | Platform economics |
| 4 | Terminal tools | Dev Tools | CLI productivity boosters |
| 5 | Keystrokes that make you throw your mouse away | Dev Tools | Keyboard-driven workflows |
| 6 | On scaling | Thoughts | Systems and personal growth |
| 7 | Parallel: Human As Machine | Thoughts | Optimization mindset |
| 8 | How to measure and improve experiment throughput? | ML / RecSys | Research velocity metrics |
| 9 | Reading Design-Data-Intensive Applications | Book Review | System design fundamentals |
| 10 | DIN | ML / RecSys | Launch mini-series Attention in RecSys |
| 11 | DCN v2 | ML / RecSys | Contrast with Wide & Deep |
| 12 | SASRec | ML / RecSys | Bridge to Sequential models |
| 13 | Ideas about Scaling | Thoughts | Babysit until they can fly themselves |
| 14 | Me as a machine | Thoughts | Helpful to think of myself as a machine |
| 15 | Map Reduce/ Parameter Server | ML / RecSys | Distributed training systems |
Add new ideas at the bottom; reorder every quarter.
🏆 Reward System
| Milestone | Trigger | Reward Ideas |
|---|---|---|
| Micro | Publish any video that week | • Treat at a new café or boba run 🔋 • 30-min skate-park session 🛹 • Digital comic or Kindle short story 📚 |
| Streak | 4 videos in 4 weeks | • ≤ $150 production upgrade 🎙️ • New vintage Nike/Adidas piece 👕 • Board-game night with friends 🎲 |
| Quarterly | 12 videos in a quarter | • Weekend micro-trip 🚗 • Speed-cubing timer + premium cube ⏱️ • 1-hr coaching call with YouTuber 🧑🏫 |
| Year-End | Hit North-Star Goal (50/50) | • 3-day ski/surf getaway with vlog 📹🏄♀️ • 1 TB iPhone upgrade 📱 • $500 STEM education donation 🤝 |
Consequences for missed week: Publish a short “lessons learned” video or community post outlining the slip & fix. No dining treat that week.
🔑 Knowledge Pillars ↔ Tracks
(unchanged, serves as syllabus reference)
Track A · Transformer Basics
- Attention Is All You Need (done)
- Linformer (done)
- Performer (WIP)
Track B · Mixture-of-Experts
- 1991 Adaptive MoE
- 2017 MoE
- Switch Transformer
Track C · Classic RecSys Models
- Wide & Deep
- DCN-v2
- DLRM + Two-Tower
Track D · Attention in RecSys
- DIN
- DIEN
- DSIN
- BST
- SIM
- ETA
- TWIN
Track E · Sequential RecSys
- SASRec
- HSTU
Track F · Retrieval Tricks
- Locality-Sensitive Hashing
- Vector Quantization
Track G · Generative Retrieval
- Google TIGER
- Meta HSTU
📝 Changelog
- 2025-05-31 — Updated 2017 MoE video.
- 2025-05-25 — Updated divide and conquer and understanding performer videos.
- 2025-05-11 — Updated self-communication video.
- 2025-05-04 — Updated understainding 1991 MoE video.
- 2025-05-03 — Started tracking week streak.