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I actually like it being aggressive, the fewer minutes of my life I spend on content of questionable value the better, I already watch too much youtube for my o
by Rastonbury 3y ago
I actually like it being aggressive, the fewer minutes of my life I spend on content of questionable value the better, I already watch too much youtube for my own good and never find rewinding back through a skipped section worth it
- echelon 3y agoThis is a good perspective. What did you actually miss? Is your life worse for it?
- Rastonbury 3y agoRealised this when Reddit removed 3rd party apps I never installed the official one, my life is no worse and they lost a user. We are just animals driven by brain chemicals, I never thought app timers were for me but I use them now
- weeblewobble 3y agoMight as well skip the whole video!
- echelon 3y agoIn the limit: might as well tune out everything and skip life. The other limit: all things must be consumed exactly as delivered, and we must consume everything we can. (I'll disregard selection / filtering algorithm.) The healthy medium is to consume, analyze, and synthesize how it makes sense for your particular style of traversing the information topology. Climb the gradients you want. Go as deep or as shallow as makes sense to you. If you can derive value from skipping video played at double speed, good. If you want to or need to watch the whole thing twice, also good. You do what you need to do. No one prescription fits the bill for all people and all circumstances.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoThis reminds me of a game jam where the guy I was working with was watching a tutorial video at like 2.5x. I was shocked at the time yet later realized the brilliance. He learned so much faster that way. Now I have a hard time with less than 3x when watching some creators.