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I wish this was available as a normal text/image written article instead of a video. The content looks cool but the format doesn't work for me; 30 minutes is wayyy too long for this one!

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In general I also prefer a written article with pictures, but you can skip-fast-forward through the video in ~5 minutes and still get most of the gist of it.

I often use the auto transcript feature.

haha, if you can skip in 5 minute chunks and still get the gist, then something tells me that there's a lot of unnecessary cruft in that video.

No, not skipping 5 minutes at a time, more like 10 seconds at a time (YouTube double-tap), reducing the total runtime to ~5 minutes. That way you still get most of the talking points and can listen in to the couple more interesting parts.

That is how I feel about a lot of youtube videos.

Perhaps some clever person will write something to transcribe and screenshot videos automatically.

He talks relatively slow, set the speed to 1.5x

1.5x is the speed I use for very fast talkers. If they are slow I'm starting at 2x and increasing from there.

It's near impossible to monetize an article these days, unfortunately. This is a pretty heavy production so it's only fair.

I always thought the reason was because a lot of people do not like to read. But your explanation makes more sense.

It is the truth unfortunately

How are videos better?

Youtube $. Longer videos are a good source of revenue from Premium viewers.

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