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Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by anticensor »

fennecbutt wrote: post #199
JoBrad wrote: post #57

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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

Asianometry

Yeah, the one that says dramme instead of D-RAM.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by etewiah »

By pure coincidence I just discovered Tom Scott today. I happen to have resolved yesterday to do a video each week for the rest of this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBFkj9SjsLU

After seeing this I am wondering if I might just try to stretch that to 10 years...

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by trekz »

kiwijamo wrote: post #212
krick wrote: post #210

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What's even the point of a newsletter in 2023 unless you need to gather people emails for marketing campaigns or other shady stuff? What does it do that RSS doesn't?

I like having a newsletter. Goes into my email inbox after signing up my email addtess. Doesn't need a separate app. Doesn't rely on a corporate who might kill my preferred RSS reader. Etc. I liked RSS in its heyday and used Google Reader to aggregate my feeds but that's long gone now.

Self-hosted, open source options are out there for RSS readers, like Tiny RSS or Inoreader if you want a nice replacement for Google Reader. Email relies on a separate app to read them though (email client).

With RSS, I like that I dont have to give up my email address that can get hacked or stolen. It's one of the reasons we have so much spam in our emails. Also like companies like openrss and rss.app that are making RSS useful and cool again.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

qup wrote: post #195
ballenf wrote: post #183

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Garand Thumb videos I've seen have been very good. Like the one about what supersonic rounds sound like going overhead. I'd guess there's somewhat less overlap with his content and conspiracy stuff.

Content aside, I hate the click bait titles a lot of big channels employ. Garand thumb included. I click "don't show this channel" on those

There's a browser extension that replaces them, but I feel that just highlights how the default experiemce is targeted at stealing people's attention.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by jgrahamc »

permalac wrote: post #214
jgrahamc wrote: post #20

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As a teenager Tom Scott helped write the documentation for POPFile. By chance he interviewed me years later on stage at some conference and just before we went on stage he told me that some of his very first contributions to anything on the Internet were to POPFile documentation. I had no idea. https://getpopfile.org/docs/welcome

Is the project still active? I'd love to find a solution for my email issues.

Barely. The software still works but I haven't worked on it for years. And no one else has. What email issues are you having?

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by mixdup »

schiffern wrote: post #179
mixdup wrote: post #118

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>I'm not sure I buy his reasoning there. He said that he uploads a video every week which is a brisk pace. Why not a video every month? Every quarter? Yeah, this immediately came to mind for me as well. There's nothing set in stone that his production has to be weekly. He could move to monthly, or whatever. It doesn't even have to be a schedule, just whenever the next thing is ready push it. Which, he did leave the d…

>There's nothing set in stone It's not about setting in stone, it's about setting a goal. That means something to some people. >he's just shifting into different types of content, which is fine He wasn't waiting for your permission. ;-)

obviously, and that was a poor way of wording it. my point was he's not completely retiring, just moving on to other forms of output which fit his preferred workload and schedule

I do think it's weird how much of a "I'm never coming back" vibe it had, though, given that he's still going to be doing podcasts and left the door open to more YouTube videos. I think it would've served him well to just say "hey, I'm cutting back but I'm not gone, just moving to a more healthy balance of how often I do these incredibly complicated videos"

but to your point, he should do him and how he wants to handle it

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Post by wscott »

pjerem wrote: post #69
zikduruqe wrote: post #59

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Great list and the majority I watch also. But you are missing Technology Connections. You'll probably find them interesting. https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections/videos

Hehehe. This channel is full of videos about "boring" topics and still you play them and bam, you are sucked into 15 min of nerdy details about a 90’s microwave that doesn’t even exists anymore and now you are wondering why you can’t have it. Amazing channel.

15min? try 50.

I always think I will watch just 10-15 and end up watching the whole thing and then wonder why learning about a crappy refrigerator was so interesting.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by __e »

denvaar wrote: post #87

I first saw Tom Scott on Computerphile. He’s so good at explaining topics with excitement and enthusiasm. It’s amazing he’s been so consistent with a video every week for the last 10 years. Not only “a video”, but videos that go above and beyond the norm in quality. He’s an inspiration.

The enthusiasm alone makes you interested in the topic. His storytelling and video production quality rounds up the experience

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Post by TheCleric »

twohaibei wrote: post #220
TheCleric wrote: post #191

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A couple I don’t see that I love watching are good machinists and restoration. So here are my go tos: my mechanics Hand Tool Rescue Cutting Edge Engineering Inheritance Machining

This Old Tony

Oh this is a GOOD one. How did I never see this before? Thanks for the rec!

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by krick »

kiwijamo wrote: post #212
krick wrote: post #210

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What's even the point of a newsletter in 2023 unless you need to gather people emails for marketing campaigns or other shady stuff? What does it do that RSS doesn't?

I like having a newsletter. Goes into my email inbox after signing up my email addtess. Doesn't need a separate app. Doesn't rely on a corporate who might kill my preferred RSS reader. Etc. I liked RSS in its heyday and used Google Reader to aggregate my feeds but that's long gone now.

Huh? It's the same as saying RSS doesn't rely on corporations that might kill your preferred email client. Both are true in a way, but RSS reader is as user-end, as an email client, all you need to read RSS feeds is a browser extension.
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