I enjoy your content here and would like to continue reading you as you grow into your next platforms.
YouTube grows your audience in the immediate term, among people who have the tech and time to consume videos. However, text is the lowest common denominator for human communication across longer time scales. Text handles copying and archiving in ways that I don’t think we can promise for video on a scale of hundreds of years, let alone thousands. Text handles search with an ease that we can only approximate for video by transcribing it. Transcription is tractable with AI, but still requires investment of additional resources, and yields a text of lower quality and intentionality than an essay crafted directly by its own author.
Plenty of people spend time in situations where they can read text but not listen to audio, and plenty of people spend time in situations where they can listen to audio but not read text. Compare the experience of listening to an essay via text to speech to the experience of reading a youtube video’s auto-generated transcript. Which makes you feel like it’s improving how you think?
Which makes you feel like it’s improving how you think?
I’m learning how to film, light and edit video. I’m learning how to speak better too, and getting a better understanding about how the media ecosystem works.
I enjoy your content here and would like to continue reading you as you grow into your next platforms.
YouTube grows your audience in the immediate term, among people who have the tech and time to consume videos. However, text is the lowest common denominator for human communication across longer time scales. Text handles copying and archiving in ways that I don’t think we can promise for video on a scale of hundreds of years, let alone thousands. Text handles search with an ease that we can only approximate for video by transcribing it. Transcription is tractable with AI, but still requires investment of additional resources, and yields a text of lower quality and intentionality than an essay crafted directly by its own author.
Plenty of people spend time in situations where they can read text but not listen to audio, and plenty of people spend time in situations where they can listen to audio but not read text. Compare the experience of listening to an essay via text to speech to the experience of reading a youtube video’s auto-generated transcript. Which makes you feel like it’s improving how you think?
I’m learning how to film, light and edit video. I’m learning how to speak better too, and getting a better understanding about how the media ecosystem works.
Making videos is harder than writing, which means I learn more from it.
Ah, that makes perfect sense. On the other side, watching videos is often easier than reading, so I often feel like I learn more from the latter =)