@stevesilberman Sometimes there's actual good content in 'em, sometimes they even have a transcript! But you can evaluate it in a minute and then watch it at 2x speed.

The downside to doing that a lot though is that when you're in meetings and speaking at what you think is a normal pace, people stop you and ask you to slow down. 😜

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^ this, so very much. When reading, I control the pace. In video, the video creator controls the pace. I have little enough time left on this Earth, why would I let someone else control it?

@stevesilberman @timbray Along the same lines, while I will frequently watch long videos from creators I’ve become familiar with, I will almost never do it at the time one is recommended to me and odds are small that I’ll remember to revisit it later.

It’s easy to dip in and out of a text article. I don’t want to have to interrupt what I’m doing for the 3-5 minutes it’ll take for me to realize a video was or wasn’t worth watching.

@stevesilberman I've written about that notion:

The Advantages of #Text-Based Information Versus #Videos, #Audio or #Images
https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/08/text-vs-video-audio-images/

#publicvoit

@stevesilberman instead of linking the video I'll describe it

A cat on the floor. It is cute.

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FWIW, there is a "Video Speed Controller" extension for Firefox & Chrome that lets you speed up a video even if the website it's on doesn't think that's something they need to let you do.

It really cuts through the rambling, ums and ahs.

Skimming text is usually better, but at least you don't have to listen at the speed they can compose a sentence if something is video only.

@stevesilberman

same

and don't get me started on podcasts.

Video is for the evening when I'm tired. Podcasts are for the car, maybe. That's it.

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Or even worse: a podcast.