# Clip Replay: Explaining Content Gaps - 2023 in Review

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-01-02
- **Format:** Video · 6 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Community, Career
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/clip-replay-explaining-content-gaps---2023-in-review
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbzM4PGEd0

This is a clip from my 2023 year-in-review where I explain the gaps in my YouTube upload schedule. I open up about a rare skin cancer diagnosis early in the year, ongoing illness, changing jobs and balancing the channel around a full-time job and young family.

## Key takeaways

- YouTube rewards consistency: taking breaks makes the algorithm assume you've gone quiet and stops sharing your content, while momentum compounds
- The first three months of the year are the most important for setting your content rhythm, as a strong start compounds across the year
- A second opinion on a routine health investigation led to a biopsy that caught a rare skin cancer early, despite an initial all-clear
- Multiple creators can cover the same topic and still both succeed, so seeing others make content you planned isn't a reason to hold back
- The channel is a side project around a full-time job and family, so life events naturally create gaps

## Chapters

- 0:02 Highlighting the content gaps
- 0:32 Health and illness this past month
- 1:30 Building and rewarding momentum
- 1:58 The skin cancer diagnosis
- 4:55 Reflecting on the year's content

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/clip-replay-explaining-content-gaps---2023-in-review

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