When I first started blogging, I used Blogger.com in Lithuanian—you can still find a backup of that blog here. I thought 4 million people should be enough for a blog to get some views, but that wasn’t true.

Later, I moved into video and made around 40,000 videos.

With the experience I have now, I feel like I should have started this blog years ago (about 17 years ago, to be more precise). I never should have created videos, but at the time, it was fun.

Looking back, I’d tell aspiring bloggers: start a blog while you’re young, and don’t drift into video just because it feels more exciting or visible. Even if you start with either video or blogging, don’t constantly reset your progress. I did that many times—I kept chasing different paths, but now I’ve settled with blogging.

Instead of doing things that get more views, do things you actually enjoy. If it’s blogging, then blog. Neither video nor blogging will automatically pay you unless people are genuinely interested in what you do. But most people will simply be indifferent.