I think it all goes back to the fact that if we'd still have stars for rating videos on YouTube instead of algorithm-driven suggestions and no real way to decide whether people really liked the content or not, we wouldn't be here. That would not be necessary if I could still clearly see who's got good ratings and who doesn't
Without algorithm driven decisions I would not haven 90 percent of my very high quality feed.
Stars are usually worthless. People leave 1 star or 5 stars, that’s akin to a down or up vote. And with the algorithm you never look at the ratings, really; you just trust the feed, because it’s good!
YouTube’s algorithm is extremely good when you know how to give it a helping hand, especially for educational content. I’m quite happy they’re pushing for more educational tools and ways for educational creators to make money.
>do it in more situations than you think you need and always earlier than you think you need.
I can't even count how many this I should just apply that. It's an obvious thing but it takes time to getting used to clearly formulating your problems. Search engines are so sofisticated nowadays that you don't even necessarily need to know what you're looking for and it just pops up. I think of it as a sort of hive mind thing, internet became a natural extension of our brains.
I'm willing to bet you'll find the same correlation between skin melanin and creativity. For the same reasons. Survivorship bias is rampant in lookback studies in the social sciences.
It's one of the things I've learned after reading "4 Hour Work Week" by Tim Ferris. If you want to focus, you need to quit caring about what's happening in the world. It's a great conversation starter by the way. You can always just ask people what's going on and they can share any major events with you, now you're a great listener, because you genuinely don't know what's going on in the world. And should you care? No.
When I stopped watching TV/reading any news at all I noticed one thing: I'm less distracted.
Once you realize that media outlets make tremendous amounts of money by selling you their narrative and like any business they're just trying to be as profitable as possible, everything changes.
Nowadays I might read an article or two from people I subscribe to on substack or something more independent, but still I don't feel like it's something that I need at all.
Often I see the argument that smaller phones have smaller batteries. But still phones these days are very thin, I wouldn't mind if it'd a bit thicker but provided me with more battery life.
> what coding, testing, and shipping looks like with short-staffed teams, teams without dedicated devops experts, and teams where everyone who originally built the system has left.
This one hits really hard and I'd love to see more of that content.
thank you! another handy thing that ytcast does and that chrome / YouTube smartphone app don't do is to wake-on-lan my tv if it's off when i want to play a video.
