{"id":3622,"date":"2021-11-17T18:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2021-11-17T18:27:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:27:38","slug":"txt-vs-vid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/11\/txt-vs-vid\/","title":{"rendered":"txt vs vid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cMy work has been trying to promote e-learning with ted talk-like videos and I absolutely hate it. It&#8217;s not just about the speed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I can learn so much quicker with text. I can skim through the parts I already know and spend more time on the parts I need to carefully consider. With video I need to skip around and it&#8217;s hard to keep track of what&#8217;s being discussed then.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Text to me is like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assembly_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ASM<\/a> for computers. It\u2019s immediately hitting the raw levels of my brain, which makes it fast and efficient. Immediately absorbed.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor computer stuff text is usually&#160; better than video, except maybe for how to do complex stuff in some desktop application or walk through games. But for learning how to raise a fence a video is so much better than text.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A video can be so much better, but might be worse. Most likely, a blog post about raising a fence would probably not be great to read. But! It might also be the <em>ultimate resource to raising a fence<\/em>, if the person went through diagrams and pictures and values in tables. That would make it far more precious than a video that you know will probably disappear at some point, even if it can be so much better than text (say a beautiful, short video straight to the point, a rare feature on YouTube). But might be the worst time-consuming thing. Gambling!<\/p>\n<p>In any way I think it\u2019s much easier to skim through texts than through videos. Always will. Which is why text is better to learn, while video adds fantastic value (sometimes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy work has been trying to promote e-learning with ted talk-like videos and I absolutely hate it. It&#8217;s not just about the speed. I can learn so much quicker with text. I can skim through the parts I already know and spend more time on the parts I need to carefully consider. With video I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}