Perfect—thanks for the links! Will add this and the other submission to the post when I get the chance.
You seem very concerned that people in the videos should have legible symbols of success. I don’t think that much affects how useful the videos are, but just in case I’m wrong [...]
The main driving motivation for this was seeing that The Best Textbooks on Every Subject received traction due to a similar mechanism. Another reason was wanting the tacit knowledge in the videos to be knowledge that’s appealing to learn.
I don’t want the mechanism to stop the post from receiving submissions though; this resource-submission genre seems like the kind that benefits from network effects. If anyone has any thoughts as to whether the mechanism is useful or counterproductive, I would be curious to hear.
That was 13 years ago across an ocean of accelerating cultural change, institutional trust, and people maturing. I’m sure you can still find plenty of people who would use mechanisms like that, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be one of the less important considerations now.
and while I’m here, i also curate something like this. ben krasnow is only the best entry point into a wider world. This list was my best attempt recently, it was particularly aimed at getting programmers into physical engineering topics, trying to removing learned helplessness around it and making the topic feel like something it’s possible to engage with. https://gist.github.com/taygetea/1fcc9817618b1008a812e6f2c58ca987
Perfect—thanks for the links! Will add this and the other submission to the post when I get the chance.
The main driving motivation for this was seeing that The Best Textbooks on Every Subject received traction due to a similar mechanism. Another reason was wanting the tacit knowledge in the videos to be knowledge that’s appealing to learn.
I don’t want the mechanism to stop the post from receiving submissions though; this resource-submission genre seems like the kind that benefits from network effects. If anyone has any thoughts as to whether the mechanism is useful or counterproductive, I would be curious to hear.
That was 13 years ago across an ocean of accelerating cultural change, institutional trust, and people maturing. I’m sure you can still find plenty of people who would use mechanisms like that, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be one of the less important considerations now.
and while I’m here, i also curate something like this. ben krasnow is only the best entry point into a wider world. This list was my best attempt recently, it was particularly aimed at getting programmers into physical engineering topics, trying to removing learned helplessness around it and making the topic feel like something it’s possible to engage with. https://gist.github.com/taygetea/1fcc9817618b1008a812e6f2c58ca987
Thanks sharing sharing this! I’ve added one and intend to add more of them when I have more time.