I had the pleasure of speaking with Ivan Liljeqvist for Forbes.com, ChangeOutput.com, and CryptographicAsset.com. Here is a collection of his quotes. Check out his site: IvanOnTech.com

Life

“Change is the only constant we have in this world.”

On Sports And Youth:

“You learn how to handle adversity, you learn teamwork, social skills, how to train as a team, and how to compete. You’re not hanging out in the hood doing crazy and useless things as a teenager, because there’s no time for that. You’re not spending time with friends that are doing things that are not useful.”

“As a teenager, the biggest danger is friends pulling you down and giving you bad habits, bad relationships. Who you hang out with decides your life.”

On YouTube

“I had the mindset that I didn’t need a huge following, maybe just a few thousand people, because then I could show [potential employers] that people listen to what I have to say, so hire me. Also, my English was so bad at that time, I thought at least I could learn English by doing YouTube.”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a good video, bad video, I’m going to do it everyday. So if it’s a bad video one day, tomorrow is a new day and quickly there will be a good video, a better one.”

“I didn’t expect crypto to have that much of an audience on YouTube. That day, when I created the Ethereum video, I didn’t know what else to create. So I thought, let me do a video on Ethereum just to get a video out today. Good thing I did that, because it completely exploded.”

“I wasn't too perfectionistic. Many people get stuck because they want the perfect video, the perfect sound, the perfect camera, but I just thought, ‘Hey, let me get a good microphone and then we'll do one video per day no matter what happens.”

“Everyone is bad at YouTube in the beginning. I figured, whatever I do, even if I spend time on equipment, etc., it's still going to be bad. If you do one video per day for three months, you have 100 videos. If you have not improved in those 100 videos, something has gotta be wrong with you.”

“Do it every day. That's really it. Do it every day. You will figure out the rest.”

Read the article on Forbes.

On the Crypto YouTube Purge

“All the channels are back, everything is back to normal, but that is only on the surface in reality. Nothing is back to normal, because now everyone understands that you will have to decentralize. It's not the question about whether we should or not. It’s a question about how quickly we can do it and how, as well as what kind of platforms we should, or should not, migrate to.”

“If you have a community, but you don’t have your community on your email list, then you don’t have a community. It’s like not your keys, not your Bitcoin. As we say in crypto, when you have your bitcoins on the exchange, it’s really not your Bitcoin, because the exchange can go broke or they can scam you or they can be hacked. The same as with the online community. If it’s not your email list, it’s not your online community.”

“It started with Alex Jones when he was banned from everywhere. And now more and more people are starting to realize it. We’ve been too comfortable. We’ve been too reliant, we’ve been too relaxed thinking that our audience is here on these platforms. But that’s not enough. It’s absolutely not enough. It’s time to look for alternatives, and be ready when they arrive, for crypto content creators may not always be welcomed on incumbent platforms.”

“People don’t see Facebook or Google as these young startups that are changing the world for the better. They simply don’t. The times have shifted. The public perception has shifted a lot, as well. More and more people realize that platforms are so big right now, and they control everything, and have this monopoly that is really unsustainable in the long term. As more and more creators experience deplatforming, more and more people will also realize that YouTube is now like television was before. It’s not disruptive.”

“Google was for people who wanted to communicate and find information without needing to go through centralized newspapers that are slow and they write things sometimes and they maybe hide some information. Google was dissident. They opened up the whole world to information and you can find information you want. YouTube was also the dissident.”

Today, these platforms are the status quo, however; they’re no longer dissident. “Instead, they are this big monopoly and people perceive them that way. Crypto is dissident tech and decentralized technologies are also dissident and they will be the cool things of 2020s.”

“You will have the same situation with YouTube as with old television, that it’s only boomers watching it. Only the older generation. And maybe we are the older generation, and the next generation will be the one that switches.”

“The future of video will be like [how] podcasts [operate]. You host your content on your own site, on your own server, and then, through RSS links, post to discovery platforms where they aggregate everyone’s content.”

Read on ChangeOutput.com

On Programming

“Once you understand the basics, you can apply the same knowledge to other programming languages. Programming is not difficult to start with.”

“The smartest nine year old is still not as smart as the dumbest 20 year old. It’s just dedication and interest. If you have the interest, you can always learn programming. You don’t have to be good at math, you don’t have to be Bill Gates or Einstein. It’s easy to start programming, but it’s difficult to master. Many people are so discouraged, because they think that you need to be very smart to even get started. But you absolutely don’t. As long as you find this interesting, and as long as you’re willing to put in the time, you will learn it.”

“There you could truly program whatever you wanted and you had the fully-fledged Turing complete programming language, which is solidity. So it was a whole other level. And you could really express yourself as a developer in so many different ways that simply wasn’t possible on Bitcoin. “

“You can express the logic, you can express what the network should do. With Bitcoin, you don’t have a Turing complete programming language, so you cannot tell the network to do all the things that you could with Ethereum. So Bitcoin doesn’t, for example, have loops. You cannot have a program that is repeating some kind of action over and over again, a certain amount of time to the same extent as on Ethereum. On Bitcoin you cannot really tell the Bitcoin network to do a lot, but on Ethereum you have more flexibility. “

“You can use arrays, you can have loops, and you can really work like in a normal programming language.With Bitcoin, it’s a bit different, because you have a script which is a low level stack based, scripting language. It’s kind of like working in assembly. It’s very low level. You work with a low level operation. In Solidity, you work with your normal concepts, as you do in other programming languages, concepts like loops, classes, functions, methods, which you don’t have in Bitcoin.”

On Ivan On Tech Academy

“The people that we educate actually go out and they build things in the industry and they push the industry forward. And you got to have education in this space, because without it, you don't have educated people that can change the industry and change the world.”

Read on CryptographicAsset.com