Who has time for videos? I know lots watch them, but wow - reading is so much more efficient. I can skip ahead - and skim - or revisit; I can annotate; I can save, transcribe (copy/paste), I read so much faster than even accelerated video can play .... and all so much more easily.
By sticking to reading, am I missing out on content?
Edit: Not a criticism of watching video, I'm wondering if I'm missing substantial things. If I didn't read, for example, I'd miss a lot that doesn't exist in video or audio. Same thing with podcasts.
List is incomplete without some other high quality channels already mentioned in other threads, but also Anton Petrov[1]'s channel, Sixty Symbols[2], Science Clic[3] and Artem Kirsanov[4]. Animalogic[5] certainly worth mentioning. And absolutely stunning Journey to Microcosmos[6].
I recommend "YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude" extension, which makes it easy to copy transcription. Paste it in Deepseek or your favourite LLM with prompt "summarize in 1 paragraph" and then you can run TTS and you get idea about of the video in 10 seconds. You can ask followup questions, or to format it differently or get the reason to actually watch it in full.
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By sticking to reading, am I missing out on content?
Edit: Not a criticism of watching video, I'm wondering if I'm missing substantial things. If I didn't read, for example, I'd miss a lot that doesn't exist in video or audio. Same thing with podcasts.
Richard Behiel, Physics Explained, Dr Jorge Diaz
For mathematics, I really appreciate the simpl but effective format of Richard Borcherds (Fields medalist)
https://www.youtube.com/@richarde.borcherds7998
[1] https://www.youtube.com/@whatdamath
[2] https://www.youtube.com/@sixtysymbols
[3] https://www.youtube.com/@ScienceClicEN
[4] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR2uRTQ53V_egXKFflMMaaw
[5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwg6_F2hDHYrqbNSGjmar4w
[6] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g