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Besides the entertainment value and communication skills getting to Adam’s level and even beyond is achievable by most people who are willing to put in some tim

Besides the entertainment value and communication skills getting to Adam’s level and even beyond is achievable by most people who are willing to put in some time. Getting to Bottura’s level is not. If someone wants to get better at cooking they would gain far more value form watching what is essentially a decent home cook rather than a top chef. The same thing can also be applied to developers most people would gain far more from watching an average developer with good communication skills solving a problem than a top 0.1% talent. Because quite likely the way and speed you think at and your problem solving skills are far closer to them than to someone who designed a programming language or built an entire framework from scratch.

bopbeepboop 6y ago
The gap is even smaller if you think of channels like ProtoCooks with Chef Frank, where the chef they got for meme cooking videos (an actual culinary instructor) has his own fun-to-watch channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmp69SeMhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmp69SeMhs The gap for me, a complete amateur home cook, between one culinary instructor and the next is mostly down to who I find it fun to learn from. I think you see the same thing in programming: some principal engineers are more fun to listen to, even if they’re not the “most talented”, and the difference doesn’t matter until you’re further into the field. tldr: People who are top 5% talent and top 5% communicators are only 0.25% of the population, but they have outsized viewership in popular education materials. They’re their own kind of “special talent” in a field.