I find video abusive to my time. To consume the content, which I assume is the author's intent, I must give up my time in whatever chunk the author chooses. But I can consume text at my own pace in multiple methods.
Tech usually prefers async, decoupled processes. Advertising and attention-for-money, however, demand a synced experience.
If I'm looking for entertainment, sure, video, audio, whatever. But if I want to learn or be informed, why should I have to waste time? If this is just the "how should creators get comped" discussion ("attention gets ads to reward content creators", etc), fine, but in a case like parent post, better use of cloudflare means more $ for them, so they probably want consumption. So, why video?
I've said this before and gotten feedback around "diff people need diff modalities to consume info" and "video can be more effective than static text". All true, which is why having text as an option is important; just video is as bad as, if not worse than, just text.
I’ve started learning angular, and watching a couple of explaining while actually coding vids related to how angular works, tips and tricks, rxjs patterns, etc.. really helped me understand how it works.
For vids where the ppl speak slow, i up the speed to 1.25 or 1.5, which helps sometimes.
For introduction to some new tech it’s fine..
Of course I have to go actually read the docs and start coding stuff, which takes way more energy, but now the vids convinced me this worth investing my time into.
Tech usually prefers async, decoupled processes. Advertising and attention-for-money, however, demand a synced experience.
If I'm looking for entertainment, sure, video, audio, whatever. But if I want to learn or be informed, why should I have to waste time? If this is just the "how should creators get comped" discussion ("attention gets ads to reward content creators", etc), fine, but in a case like parent post, better use of cloudflare means more $ for them, so they probably want consumption. So, why video?
I've said this before and gotten feedback around "diff people need diff modalities to consume info" and "video can be more effective than static text". All true, which is why having text as an option is important; just video is as bad as, if not worse than, just text.