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> knowledge is in a form of youtube videos Hardly it almost always a shortened more approachable summary of something described in a book. Also (IMHO) videos are a horrible format for transferring knowledge, it’s slow AF compared to reading and impossible to search, you have to consume it mostly sequentially
Sure, but if when are you going to open a book on SNES (super nintendo)? For comparison, here is a very interesting video series for anyone with at least some programming knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ibhDU2SAI&list=PLHQ0utQyFw... Sure, you could buy a book about snes (not even sure if any good ones exist) and read about that... but you're not that interested into the topic, because it's something old…
Certainly. However a text summary is still much more efficient (unless you’re watching the video mainly for entertainment).