Ernie SmithAug 16, 2023

For today’s @tedium, I waded into the drama around Linus Tech Tips’ quantity-over-quality approach, which seems to be ratcheting up, with claims of misconduct surfacing.

The #grindset needs to give way to something else.

https://tedium.co/2023/08/16/linus-tech-tips-grindset/

Linus Tech Tips: The Dangers Of The “Grindset”

A YouTube controversy around a major channel reflects the complexity of maintaining editorial standards, or even integrity, when quantity trumps all.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Show threadErnie SmithAug 16, 2023

“Burke pointed to a clip of founder Linus Sebastian discussing the cost of doing a potential reshoot of something in the cost per hour of each person being in the room—which, honestly, gave me echoes of a recent tech product a CFO devised, a calculator developed by Shopify that determines how much an individual meeting will cost the company.”

https://tedium.co/2023/08/16/linus-tech-tips-grindset/

Linus Tech Tips: The Dangers Of The “Grindset”

A YouTube controversy around a major channel reflects the complexity of maintaining editorial standards, or even integrity, when quantity trumps all.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Show threadTeixi

@ernie

» The internet is a hamster wheel. It will keep taking and taking and taking and taking as long as we let it. «

As in #CriticalIgnoring paper:
https://mastodon.social/@teixi/110716777489852913

Aug 16, 2023 at 10:37pmWeb