Videos 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

Videos 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.