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Dr. K

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4933 total appearances

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Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

They're like the 25 year old dudes who are living in their mom's basement.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

They're basically me and no one's helping them.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Like no one, no one even knows that they exist, right?

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So I started streaming on Twitch.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And I remember like the conversation with my wife was like,

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Hey, I want to like start streaming on Twitch.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And then she was kind of mad at me sort of because we had two kids at home.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So I had like maybe a three year old and a one year old.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And so it's kind of hard.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

She's getting her MBA and I like decide to do this thing on like nights and weekends.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So it's like I'm going to finish work at 6 o'clock and then I'm going to start streaming and I'm going to do like a lecture on mental health on Twitch to gamers and try to teach them like about depression and anxiety and pornography addiction and, you know, how to talk to girls and developing confidence.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

Because these are like my people.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

These are the people that are left behind.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And so I'm grateful to this day because she was like, OK, with that.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And she's now CEO of Healthy Gamer, which is the company that we started and is my boss.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So she's been like really been awesomely supportive.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

And so I started helping these people and then like something weird happened.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So I had done some analysis and I was like, okay, my goal is to have 100 viewers, concurrent live viewers in one year.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

So if I have five viewers at the end of a month, that's success.

Raj Shamani's Figuring Out
Why Gen Z Feels Like Failures: AI, Loneliness & Dark Side of Success | Dr. K | FO481 Raj Shamani

20 viewers by the end of six months, that's success.