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I prefer images. Text is fed into my brain and then my brain needs to generate the image related to the text so in the end it’s all images anyway. A text base
by ninetyninenine 1y ago
I prefer images.
Text is fed into my brain and then my brain needs to generate the image related to the text so in the end it’s all images anyway.
A text based webpage just causes me to do more work and even then the image in my mind could be wildly inaccurate.
- wilkystyle 1y agoWhat images would you have preferred the author use in this blog post?
- ninetyninenine 1y agoLike a youtube video where he narrates his whole idea with different cuts of his ideas in action. Videos that contrast as he narrating the beauty of text based pages with examples of the contrary and a panning camera. For this: >You can paste the whole thing into an email to a friend. You can put it in ChatGPT to ask questions. >Hell—you can post the whole thing on X and pretend you wrote it! I'd like to see flashcuts of a person in front of the computer actually doing it while he narrates it. With cool music. That style. Because this is what my brain is producing in my head if he doesn't.
- aniviacat 1y agoA significant issue with videos is that it's harder/impossible to skim them. Also, they don't allow for (accurate) quick search. I'm optimistic we'll soon see some AI startup provide proper solutions to these issues. But until then I prefer text.
- bccdee 1y agoVideos are good for passive consumption but terrible for active consumption. I can't skim or linger or jump back and forth at a glance. Besides, flash-cuts of people acting out narration with music offer me nothing. A video like that is functionally just audio—a great candidate for playing in the background, in another tab, while I do something else.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoA picture of a text only post, obviously.