With all due respect, turning your text into video is not a very technoskeptical move. Anything that competes unnecessarily against deep, sustained, focused reading is the technological enemy of thoughtfulness.
Appreciate the feedback. And of course in our interview with Cal Newport, he talked about the necessity for unplugging for Deep Work. But to use a biblical analogy (though I'm agnostic) when people asked Jesus why he was hanging out with the hookers and tax collectors, his answer was some version of, "Well, these are the people who need the message most." To what degree do you go to where the people are? The sad reality is, deep reading is ever-more a minority taste. Which means we're delivering content in a format not reaching a lot of people we'd like to reach. I rarely watch YouTube video of people just talking online. I find it baffling that people do! But clearly some people love it. And even I find information-conveying utility of podcasts very high.
If there are people out there who don't have the time or interest to read a 20 minute article, but can learn the key points in a 5 minute video or podcast summary, should we say, "Nope, reading, or nothing?" We don't really know the answer.
We tried a hard copy magazine for our best pieces (most of which have still never been online, and which I'm slowly updating and posting). What that particular experiment established was that although hard-copy print may be the best way to deliver a thoughtful written message in a totally distraction and advertisement-free manner, i.e. optimized for focus and Deep Work, people didn't want it. Not enough to pay for it.
I said no because when you reprint an article, it's quick for me to scan to pick out what interests me. With any type of podcast, skimming is much more tedious.
Thanks for asking and for a lot of informative content.
I prefer podcasts that are automatically sucked into the app I use: Castbox. I have very little time to read, but listen when I exercise or drive.
With all due respect, turning your text into video is not a very technoskeptical move. Anything that competes unnecessarily against deep, sustained, focused reading is the technological enemy of thoughtfulness.
Appreciate the feedback. And of course in our interview with Cal Newport, he talked about the necessity for unplugging for Deep Work. But to use a biblical analogy (though I'm agnostic) when people asked Jesus why he was hanging out with the hookers and tax collectors, his answer was some version of, "Well, these are the people who need the message most." To what degree do you go to where the people are? The sad reality is, deep reading is ever-more a minority taste. Which means we're delivering content in a format not reaching a lot of people we'd like to reach. I rarely watch YouTube video of people just talking online. I find it baffling that people do! But clearly some people love it. And even I find information-conveying utility of podcasts very high.
If there are people out there who don't have the time or interest to read a 20 minute article, but can learn the key points in a 5 minute video or podcast summary, should we say, "Nope, reading, or nothing?" We don't really know the answer.
We tried a hard copy magazine for our best pieces (most of which have still never been online, and which I'm slowly updating and posting). What that particular experiment established was that although hard-copy print may be the best way to deliver a thoughtful written message in a totally distraction and advertisement-free manner, i.e. optimized for focus and Deep Work, people didn't want it. Not enough to pay for it.
Yay for podcasts
I said no because when you reprint an article, it's quick for me to scan to pick out what interests me. With any type of podcast, skimming is much more tedious.
Thanks for asking and for a lot of informative content.