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I understand where you're coming from. There are some very smart people who refuse to listen to podcasts, but instead read the transcripts because they find the
by gen220 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from. There are some very smart people who refuse to listen to podcasts, but instead read the transcripts because they find the signal:noise to be higher.
That being said, one factor you might be discounting is that producing 1 hour of quality audio information takes much less time than producing a quality 1 hour read. There are a lot of people who are great conversationalists, but not great writers.
- the_af 6y ago> producing 1 hour of quality audio information takes much less time than producing a quality 1 hour read I'm not sure I agree. For example, I find myself fast-forwarding Coursera videos because the teachers just don't understand where it makes sense to slow the pace or where to pick it up. I find myself skipping huge parts of YouTube videos (my interest is hobby stuff) because the author just doesn't understand I already understood the idea, the take is getting boring (or just not showing the interesting stuff), and they should just cut ahead. I find producing mediocre audio/video is easy. But quality audio/video is as hard as quality text, if not harder.
- gen220 6y agoI actually agree with everything you’re saying. My kind of meta point was that those content producers might have never made anything accessible to you, if they didn’t have access to audio or video publishing platforms. I’m not making any statement on the average quality of audiovisual content, just the barrier to entry for the production of that content. FWIW I do a lot of skipping and fast replaying too. My podcasts are usually around 2.5x. Most people perform-talk way too slow. If I weren’t able to listen that quickly while doing dishes or similar, I’d normally prefer to read.