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> To be fair, there are no good guys in history. Disagree strongly. On balance the American framers (Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Mason, Jefferson, et. al) were amazingly good for the world, far better than Marx, Lenin, Mao, etc.
I appreciate your opinion even if I do not agree.
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> I’ve tried to introduce them to science, space, programming, history, math, finance, nature, etc. content and they don’t want to have anything to do with it. Anyone good suggestions?
Kurz ge sagt. Smarter every day Practical engineering For the competitive athletes, all attack. Maybe something with Scratch, but id argue they should be doing scratch, not watching someone else create content. Any peppa or similar extremely benign cartoon if you are reinforcing a foreign language (Spanish, French, Italian, etc)
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Gen Z here. I grew up on YouTube. I’m 25 now, so technically a cusper but had an iPod touch and YouTube since third grade. Videos of travel have a lot of value. I was stuck behind a desk for 4 years at my programming job. The last 7 months of travel has done so much for the rest of my entire human experience that I could never get from a textbook. Plus it’s fun to see people explore the world. We’ve been fascinated b…
> Videos of travel have a lot of value. I was stuck behind a desk for 4 years at my programming job. The last 7 months of travel has done so much for the rest of my entire human experience that I could never get from a textbook. The last 7 months of real travel, or watching YouTube videos of travel? Feel like you’re making a big leap here.
Same thing with travel
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That's what watch later is for though. I keep getting recommended the same damn set to videos which I've passed over a hundred times. Not sure why the "algorithm" is getting so much love, it's got some attributes that are pretty clearly crap.
I wish though it would surface videos in my watch later in the recommendations page. As it is "watch later" is where videos go to get forgotten about.
someone should tell the author about archive.org
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There are literally full courses for AWS DevOps qualifications, Network Administration and the like, with hundreds of comments underneath them saying, “thanks, I passed my AWS cert today because of this course”, “thanks, I got a job because of this course”, “thanks, I got a promotion because of this course”. Here is but one example of many: https://youtu.be/SOTamWNgDKc There are thousands of interviews with people wh…
>Because if the person can demonstrate that they can do the job, then they can do the job. This is exactly right, but "I watched some YT videos" is not equivalent to demonstrating ability, which I think is the OP's point. If you can learn something from watching videos, and then prove that you've mastered it by actually demonstrating your skill, then great! But if your resume just says "I watched some videos and have…
What the YouTube videos demonstrate to me is a lack of effort and committment to find the very best sources and learn the best material; obviously to me, computer science theory and a real professor would be better (skill training is good after you have that, though I'm greatly simplifying here). If that's how they approach their skill-aquisition project, that's evidence of how they'll approach projects at my business. If they follow the herd on that, it's evidence that they will follow the herd otherwise.
I know which way the herd is running. It's not only the wrong way (there's no correlation between herd direction and the 'right' direction - in fact, I'd say there's an inverse correlation because the herd is driven by other things), it's to my competitive advantage to go another way. I want people whose standard is the very best and who think for themselves. And in addition, the social media culture from which the YouTube training trend arises, is highly reactionary, which is crushing to creative, enthusiastic, independent thought.
I agree with the author. I just cancelled Spotify and got YouTube Premium and it was an absolutely brilliant decision. Pretty soon I’m going to cancel Netflix and Prime too and just take out the odd month subscription to a streaming service if there’s something I really want to watch. I’m probably better off watching some informative documentary on YT than I am watching Netflix anyway and if I want entertainment, the…
> they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free I have children between the ages of 9 and 26. You know what they are passionate about? Minecraft, Mr Beast, Travel vlogs, mommy vlogs, “reality” videos, etc. I’ve tried to introduce them to science, space, programming, history, math, finance, nature, etc. content and they don’t want…