Jon Youshaei

Like, these are what you should remember, what you should take away in your next year on the job to be well set for the future.

Right now.

Yeah, I think the soft skills are so important, especially learning how to empathize and communicate.

But I don't know.

I feel like I look back on my time in the corporate world.

I'm like a lot of those hard skills prepare me for what I'm doing right now as a creator.

Like I'll never forget like when I was at YouTube and I had an amazing boss.

Ross Warren, who is just so good at marketing and branding, but he also knew Photoshop.

And I remember like our one-on-one meetings and I'm just like, Ross, can I, can I see how you design this on Photoshop?

Can I just like, just watch as you do it and ask a few questions and learn how to design myself.

And now that's helped me like as a YouTuber design our thumbnails or be able to give better direction to our team to be like, Hey, add a bit more drop shadow here, increase the saturation there.

And I feel like I wouldn't have that language if I didn't have that

technical know-how.

100%.

Or even on a more practical level for everyday presentations.

I remember at Instagram, one of my colleagues, Peter Shields, was kind of like a Picasso of PowerPoint.

He just was able to design these beautiful slides, and now I'm able to make slides to pitch our sponsors for brand deals for our show, and I feel like a lot of that is in the packaging of the deck and that technical skill that I learned, and I just...

try to be a sponge with.

So I don't know.

I think the technical skills are super important.