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It's interesting you view those as informational because I see them as narrative stories. Also you might think you don't need the time to ponder but you don't k
by MathYouF 5y ago
It's interesting you view those as informational because I see them as narrative stories. Also you might think you don't need the time to ponder but you don't know what you've missed by not taking the time the show makers decided to put in there for pause. Also changing the speed changes their voice and therefore some subte things about the delivery. Pure information media is like Strangs Linear Algebra course or some similar MIT OCW mathy course. Would you also consider radiolab something informational that you might speed up?
- avh02 5y agohaven't listened to radiolab in a while so can't remember off the top of my head what speed i'd put it at - but i think the difficulty there with speeding it up is how much they intersperse and cut things in to each other. I mean, yeah, these are narratives - sometimes i like that and sometimes i just want the juice. If i can't keep up with it i obviously slow it down. If i find my mind has wandered i'll pause/rewind - if that keeps happening i'll stop and come back to it another time cos i'm obviously not giving it enough attention. I'm not pretending to be a genius but English is native to me and I have tangential knowledge of what they're talking about already often enough so it's rare I have to hang on every word and ponder every implication. I tend to adjust speed depending on 1) what i'm doing and 2) how noisy it is around me/how well i can focus/hear what they're saying. If i'm not keeping up or it's way too much effort, i slow down. That said, I'm never past 1.5x cos i just don't enjoy straining.