This Physics Lesson Is The Secret To Success

call AQ and 6 [Music] [Music] Freeze Frame now this video is not about cars but I need to use these cars to teach you a physics lesson this car in front is doing a great service for the one behind it this car is creating a slipstream for this one it's a concept from aerodynamics but we need a better set to explain this for for [Music] you now the intro of this video was made using the Intel Core Ultra laptops more on that later all right back to the garage so I was playing this driving simulator

game on my PlayStation recently called Grand Turismo 7 and there's this concept in the game which because it's sold as a realistic driving simulator also exists in the real world with cars that concept is called a slipstream in the world of driving a slipstream is defined as the partial vacuum created behind a moving vehicle often used by other vehicles to help accelerate them in aerodynamics it's called drafting where one object takes advantage of another object in front of it to exploit the lead object slipstream and thus reduce the overall effect of drag drag is wind

resistance at really high speeds as in car racing or even cycling using somebody else's slipstream somebody else going in front of you that you're sitting behind can significantly reduce the driver behinds average energy expenditure and can even slightly reduce the energy expenditure of the vehicle in front basically the driver in front punches a hole through the air and reduces drag and pressure for the person behind in fact there was a cyclist called guy Martin who he demonstrated slipstreaming aerodynamics by cycling behind a truck to achieve speeds of over 180 kmph think about how fast that

is on a damn bicycle now why am I telling you all this because if there's one thing I've learned over a decade of building companies and projects and failing at Several of them with few successes here and there is that ultimately almost all success I've seen in the real world either for myself or my study of others comes from slipstreaming on social media it can be tempting to think that success comes from extreme hard work or some guy fighting All Odds or the myth of that Lan genius if hard work was the only thing that

mattered then the person doing manual labor should be making the most amount of money that's why in my experience most success comes from the slipstream and it works exactly like it works with cars basically almost every company or individual you know who became successful either became successful because their chosen industry itself started small and became big over time or because they played right behind someone else moving fast with momentum take the example of Instagram in 2007 the iPhone was launched and we are calling it iPhone and this new phone was seeing crazy momentum it had

created a slipstream for anyone who wanted to play on top of its App Store Instagram was one of those apps smartphones with cameras were already a thing in 2010 and that's even when the word selfie became popular back then photos including selfies were often saved to the phone's gallery and it was not necessarily shared right away what Instagram did was enable sharing with a cute marketing play called filters but their crazy growth was driven by a surge in demand for the iPhone it's the exact same scenario with several podcasting content creators in India how much

of their success was predicated on geod dropping data costs and them just coasting on the slipstream created by being early right behind the Geo wave like just look at this graph anyone sitting on this graph would have seen crazy growth as long as the market wanted that growth this graph also birthed many new unicorns who were standing right behind that car waiting for the wave to happen I mean Deep dive into the consumption stats from 110 CR GB in 2016 to 8,600 CR GB in 2022 it works so proportionally that a content creator having let's

say a total views of 100K people in 2016 and continuing to do his or her job would get several times bigger Just Because the Internet consumer base got several times bigger without putting any additional effort they were just doing their thing the industry got bigger and they succeeded as a result of it and slipstreams are so synergistic that how much of a creator success is because of YouTube's growth which is because YouTube used Android Slipstream by coming packaged in the operating system and how much of that Android OS growth was because of the growth of

user demand for phones it's all slipstreams through and through let's take another famous example of zeroda look at this nitin Kut tweet that says that they were in the right place at the right time when Adar UPI and digilocker took off their platform which had been around for a while accelerated hard because of the slip stream created actually one of the economic activities that the government needs to do is create some of these slipstreams for others especially for private companies you've seen the same thing with a lot of the UPI apps as well but slip

streaming isn't just limited to Industries and markets changing it can also be with other human beings I had been creating content for 7 to 8 years why did I accelerate this year how much of this was related to me slip streaming on tanas momentum because I worked like a dog for almost a decade why this year why not any other year it was it was also because AI really took off I have a post from 2018 on my Facebook about open a when absolutely nobody cared one of my earliest posts on Instagram was about a

robotic arm that openi was working on all the way back then but covering them back then didn't matter but somehow it matters now why it's the slipstream I was early and the car told me because I was in the right place right time and it takes a lot of humility to admit that but all of the slipstreaming still requires work and being in the right place at the wrong time for years take another extreme example which doesn't actually require much work being an investor it's the most pure form of slipstreaming in the investor World they

describe slipstreaming in the form of headwinds and Tailwinds but their only job is to catch the right fast-moving car punching a hole through the air you could argue it's a hard job to figure out which car to stand behind because there's so many cars and most of those cars are not going anywhere so there's still work being put in to figure out which car to sit behind but the main problem with slipstreaming is frankly that most people catch the wrong slipstream or catch it too late you need to catch a car when it is still

slow accelerating fast and before other people have got onto it something moving with high acceleration rather than something moving with high absolute speed there's a difference between a car currently moving slow but accelerating fast versus a car moving fast but slowing down you need to catch the first one but it can sometimes be scary to switch to a new field or a new new industry when it's too small like VFX or game development these are all small Industries what if it doesn't work what if it fails and my personal case what if I'm actually too

early I've actually built a lot of software and companies over the decade and the number one cause of failure on postmortem of some of them was trying to do things too early before there was a slipstream created the problem with this is sometimes the car can come and hit you from behind and that can lead to an accident for example working on things like inverse kinematics in unreal Engine 5 years ago was the metaverse even a thing back then was there consumer or investor demand back then not as much a lot of ml Engineers have

this problem now of being a bit early and getting hit from behind with llms a lot of the old ways of doing things in machine learning had changed Amazon even laid off a bunch of people from the Alexa team after chat GPD came out because there was a new paradigm a new way of doing things right was filled with job Cuts in the ml division after llms became a thing so some sometimes being too early can be as bad as being too late remember Google Glass same issue being too early is actually as bad a

problem as being behind don't complain about video editors or content creators who are suddenly doing well because they're in the right time right place after Geo one more thing about slipstreams they can stop the car in front of you can hit the brakes and that causes accidents behind it happened to me with my last company in the pandemic when the pandemic came it was this inflection point where a slipstream was possible we had some success with the community on Discord s and we built out our own Community app but when the pandemic just disappeared so

did the slipstream people went back to the old way of doing things a lot of people on social media wonder why I have high loyalty from my audience no it's not because of the content I create today check out this tweet and read the comments too that app was my last company Avalon today if you go to a good startup in India a lot of people who worked there were people from the Avalon app or the Avalon Community what we accidentally did and we were still young and learning but the key thing here was that

that slipstream may have started with me I didn't know what I was doing I was just trying something but it got stronger because of the community itself every person who became successful or got a job or started a company created a slipstream for the next person and that became powerful this is actually a physics concept that drivers in Motorsport take advantage of actually in races there's usually a big cluster of riders grouping or clumping together in what's called a palatin slipstreaming behind one another airbone objects like birds do something similar called Vortex surface where they

create a vshape to take advantage of each other's momentum if one girl gets a job then she tells the company hey you should also talk to this other person from the community and so on and so forth so it's almost like they're riding that same vshape with each other formation is better than going alone but it's still very important that the formation is a slipstream some Market that's growing and that you are early but correct or you will crash and by definition if a car is already going really fast it's probably too late to slipstream

behind it but very recently I discovered a new kind of slipstream I can generate we actually spend a lot of our time hacking and trying new technology experiments especially in the world of content most of the time it fails to us Hardware blockchain robotics arvr VFX it doesn't matter if it's an interesting technology we'll try experiments but when it works I tend to make content about it combine that with my newfound access to early technology and I'm able to show you a lot of what is coming a lot of people create content to make money

or whatever but I actually use my distribution like a Visa everyone in the offline world can tell you that anyone who knows me if I can get in anywhere I can tell you about things before it happens for example I was the second Creator slm media person in the entire country of India to try Google starine a secretive project that hopes to replace meetings entirely using cameras and light field displays and if it works it's very valuable information for you the word is called Alpha that you can take advantage of so the information and access

I have today has sort of started becoming a slip stream as long as I can make videos about it same with the meta R bands after using it for a while I can tell that it's going to become some new type of slipstream maybe meta a bands won't be the specific product that gets big but they will spark the market they will Kickstart it I do want to mention that over the last decade I've also Gotten Good at recognizing what slipstreams aren't there yet like virtual reality if you've been following me for 78 years you

know I've been using VR since forever but user adoption for VR isn't that strong yet it has an effect where people buy it but but don't use it every day the car is not moving fast enough yet for you to tow along but at least for us it is good to keep building and standing in tow in case everything accelerates and you can smartly build games now which are adjacent to getting started doing full VR because the same underlying engines will be used to build VR experiences unreal and unity same skill slightly different application and

lastly also remember that sometimes I can be wrong generally I try not to be and I'm trying to be more measured with my words and ideas these days because I know how many people need some new slipstream instead of standing in the traffic jam that is the react developer job and remember that as I get older my thoughts and ideas and even experience are getting sharper I'm gaining wisdom over the years which is hopefully useful to many of you I've made many mistakes in the past that I'm embarrassed by but I've been prudent enough to

learn from them I know which cars you'll follow that will just end up crashing but if I do make mistakes please have the wisdom to forgive me remember humans make mistakes and I'm still human at least for now so today I'm super excited to take you behind the scenes of our CGI intro creation we managed to pull off something pretty incredible a highquality CGI sequence created entirely on laptops but more on that game-changing Hardware later first let me walk you through our process we kicked things off using stable diffusion for our concept art this AI

workflow helped us rapidly generate and iterate on visual ideas for the intro giving us a solid foundation to build upon next we move to blender here we composed the 3D envir enironment based on our stable diffusion Concepts and created those Dynamic camera movements you see in the intro after exporting from blender we took our footage into premere we applied lots and did a basic color grade establishing the overall color palette and mood then it was over to Adobe After Effects for a more detailed color grade we used the magic bullet plugin which was crucial in

achieving the specific visual style we were after now you might be wondering how we managed to handle this complex workflow without a massive render Farm or high-end workstations well that's where things get interesting the secret behind this entire production was the Intel Core Ultra powerered laptops we used these aren't your average laptops they're what we call AI PCS and the key difference is that they're equipped with a neural Processing Unit or npu this specialized chip is a GameChanger for AI related tasks because of optimized workload distribution where the npu complements the functions of the CPU

and GPU ensuring that no single processor gets overwhelmed it can handle sustained heavily used AI workloads at low power allowing the CPU and GPU to focus on more ensive tasks like 3D rendering in blender or video processing in premere Pro hence this overall efficiency meant we could try out more ideas and refine our work faster than ever before what's even more exciting is that Intel has collaborated with over 100 independent software vendors isvs like Adobe and many others to optimize these applications for AIP PCS this collaboration ensures that you get the best possible experience letting

you focus on what matters creating better content and this is how this intelligent division of labor allowed us to create this highquality CGI intro without being tied to a massive workstation it's opening up new possibilities for creators and for those of you interested in learning more about these Intel Core Ultra processors and AI capable PCS check out the link in the description