Great idea! Looking forward to seeing not too sophisticated videos for people like me, who are not quants yet (neither statisticians) ;)

Dimitri, You already know this, but there's a trade-off between topic complexity and breadth of appeal. Making simpler videos will appeal to a broader audience. I think you've occupied this niche of rigorous quant finance really well over the past few years of watching your content. I don't think you necessarily have to become "less rigorous" to grow your channel. Still, overcoming that paralysis which you described and simply posting more mathematical finance content would help you grow, regardless of the complexity. You would do it in your teaching style, which is what many of us are looking for. I think purposely dumbing down your videos to "fit in" would be a mistake because many of us enjoy the effort you put in to make rigorous content. On a slightly unrelated note, I have a content suggestion: could you make a video about a numerical method (perhaps finite difference methods or even a spectral method) to approximate option prices? The math behind it is incredibly interesting, and I'd like to see what you have to say about it. Thanks for reading.

Hi Dimitri. As usual, great video! Any chance you can update your book list, with more textbooks, for the 'Quant Technicals'. I have been using it as a guide, and it has helped a lot. I just checked and the Dobrow textbook you just showed does not appear. Thank you for making these videos!

I think it's a real value add if you decide and manage to put out such comparable, simplistic, yet educative video's on Quant finance. I do think you have perfectionistic tendencies. These can be roadblocks in this case which won't let you make such content.

Hey Dimitri, I've been watching your content for a while, recently I've been admitted to the University of Chicago's MSFM! I've noticed that the program is quite lax which allows me to chose classes and to develop my own toolbox of skills. What are some of the biggest opportunities you've witnessed in the industry and how may a grad student structure his education to tackle said opportunities? Thanks!

JAJAJA all paths lead me to Rome!, Plano, El Juli, quant finances and now StatQuest!!!!, good job Dimitri, it seems you are becoming a leader (who leads)

When I went to Japan and turned on the news, they were reenacting political events with puppets and it looked like a kid's show. This really reminds me of Josh's youtube style.

One idea you can think about is maybe how to translate this into python programming .I know there are a lot of codes out there on the internet but I feel like a lot of people have some lackings in just building and understanding algorithms in general. E.g some data structures related to some applications like binomial trees, PCA, Copulas etc. I think if we want to build something custom made on these examples, we need to understand the basics of it.

cool idea.

Hi Dimitri, One strategy you may consider to implement this idea without losing your trademark rigour or misleading viewers as to the complexity of a topic, is to cover that topic in various degrees of depth throughout the video. You might begin by giving the very simplified idea - the broad overview so the viewer can understand at least what the general principles might be - and then progress to increasingly more rigorous explanations and analyses of the topic. Perhaps it may be best to split one topic into a few videos if it takes too long to implement this approach. However, I think this can allow your content to appeal to a wider audience while not sacrificing the interest of those who are already committed to watching your content. I love your idea to try to simplify content a bit more and make it appealing in a different manner, and I hope that this comment can contribute anything towards that end :)

How do you feel about NEDL kzfaq.info ?

In my opinion you feel a lot like me and will get bored doing the basic stuff. Why not take real life cases and explain everything around it. Like the 1st Zillow video.