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> It’s an awesome resource and I think Gen Z are at a massive advantage because of it. They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent.

> It’s an awesome resource and I think Gen Z are at a massive advantage because of it. They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent. I think we’ll see them leapfrogging millennials on the career ladder because they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free I don't follow this. I'm a millennial, graduated university 10 years ago, and by my estimation, that was the golden age of MOOCs (many of the courses available for free back then require payment now, and several of the MOOC platforms have shut down) I don't consider bespoke youtube videos to be as rigorous with regards to structuring a topic

raincole 4y ago
Youtube videos are good for "fixing your own pipelines" kinda of problem. I don't think they're good for, for example, programmering.
BlueTemplar 4y ago
Yeah, including Wikibooks... and why hasn't anyone brought up Wikipedia yet ?! It's when I discovered it in 2006 when it really dawned on me just how immense the potential of the Internet was !
rcarr 4y ago
A guy a few years older than me at school was massively into maths and took out every book he could find from all the local libraries. When he finally arrived at Cambridge University to study, he ended up going to third year lectures because he already knew all the material in the first and second year classes. He went on to do a Phd in maths there. Imagine if he had access to YouTube. He probably would have ended up being capable of jumping straight into the Phd on arrival.
- TMWNN 4y ago
  I've heard that reading about a subject for 30 minutes a day will, in six months, make you among the world's experts.
  - rossjudson 4y ago
    Probably won't work for playing piano. Unlikely to work for anything involving problem solving, because...you gotta solve problems, not read about solving problems.
  - cipheredStones 4y ago
    In what subjects will 90 hours of reading - a little more than two work-weeks' worth - make you a world expert?
  - komali2 4y ago
    Where did you hear this? Was there any examples provided of people that have done this successfully? I'm extremely skeptical of this lol
  - FredPret 4y ago
    Top 0.1% of the general public, certainly. One of the go-to experts in the world? No

raincole 4y ago

Youtube videos are good for "fixing your own pipelines" kinda of problem. I don't think they're good for, for example, programmering.

BlueTemplar 4y ago

Yeah, including Wikibooks... and why hasn't anyone brought up Wikipedia yet ?! It's when I discovered it in 2006 when it really dawned on me just how immense the potential of the Internet was !

rcarr 4y ago

A guy a few years older than me at school was massively into maths and took out every book he could find from all the local libraries. When he finally arrived at Cambridge University to study, he ended up going to third year lectures because he already knew all the material in the first and second year classes. He went on to do a Phd in maths there. Imagine if he had access to YouTube. He probably would have ended up being capable of jumping straight into the Phd on arrival.

TMWNN 4y ago
I've heard that reading about a subject for 30 minutes a day will, in six months, make you among the world's experts.
- rossjudson 4y ago
  Probably won't work for playing piano. Unlikely to work for anything involving problem solving, because...you gotta solve problems, not read about solving problems.
- cipheredStones 4y ago
  In what subjects will 90 hours of reading - a little more than two work-weeks' worth - make you a world expert?
- komali2 4y ago
  Where did you hear this? Was there any examples provided of people that have done this successfully? I'm extremely skeptical of this lol
- FredPret 4y ago
  Top 0.1% of the general public, certainly. One of the go-to experts in the world? No