You made such a big deal in the video about us criticizing your gameplay so I thought I would say things I would otherwise keep to myself:
1) You should have cast inspiration on your first city. It would have made research go way faster and "paid for itself" by letting you get construction and other techs much faster.
2) You should have built on the 2/4 spot so that you could pump out pioneers and early buildings even faster, which is really important in the early game. You can always settle a 4/2 later if you are worried about getting a high level city.
3) Courage is a terrible spell unless you have lots of life shards. Regeneration or stoneskin would be much more useful, probably regeneration early on since lots of enemies use clubs.
4) I always get civics first since you won't be able to construct a study early on, there are better options like a workshop and a tower of dominion.
5) you should build a bell tower/tower of dominion first, and then a workshop since the production bonus pays for itself in terms of lost time you could spend doing other things.
Okay thats enough for now.
