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derbOactoday at 10:53 AM1 replyview on HN

FWIW, I like her videos but I usually prefer essays or blog posts in general as they're easier to scan and process at my own rate. It's not about this particular video, it's about videos in general.


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Cthulhu_today at 12:03 PM

Same; thanks to modern technology, videos can be transcribed and translated into blog posts automatically though. I wish that was a default and / or easier to find though.

For years I've been thinking "I should watch the WWDC videos because there's a lot of Really Important Information" in there, but... they're videos. In general I find that I can't pay attention to spoken word (videos, presentations, meetings) that contain important information, probably because processing it costs a lot more energy than reading.

But then I tune out / fall asleep when trying to read long content too, lmao. Glad I never did university or do uni level work.