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Listening to Samuel Pepys doesn't give me a deep dive into history but it goes go wide in a way reading the Wiki entry for the great fire of london does not. Th
by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Listening to Samuel Pepys doesn't give me a deep dive into history but it goes go wide in a way reading the Wiki entry for the great fire of london does not. That information is compressed does not mean it is more useful. Suppose there is a second great fire or flooding - I believe locating friends with secure lodgings to store consumer goods would come immediately to mind after listening to Pepys but this would not occur by just having read the wiki.
- the_af 6y agoNote I did not argue more compressed info (or Wikipedia) is "more useful". I argued it's a different use case, quicker and more to the point. Of course, I don't like podcasts so that alone makes Wikipedia better for me, but this is not what I was arguing. I was arguing podcasts can never be a replacement for Wikipedia.