What part of “do not send me links to videos” do you find so impossibly hard to understand?
I do not watch videos. I especially do not watch videos that people bring to my attention and tell me that I “need” to watch. In fact, if you want to ensure that you go on my spam-block list and are never able to email me again, putting a link to a video in an email and telling me to watch it is a very effective way to do so.
Videos are an enormous and painful waste of my time. The words-per-minute rate of a video averages around 125 words per minute, and even the most informative videos contain a maximum content-to-fluff ratio of around 10 percent as they never, ever, simply provide the information, but instead need to introduce it, explain why they are addressing the topic, and then explain the significance of the subject being addressed before getting to the actual point.
Now, I read at a confirmed 1,194 wpm rate. So I find the maximum information flow rate to be excrutiatingly slow, since it’s coming in at one-tenth the rate to which I am accustomed. Throw in the fluff factor, and it means that a video provides me with information at one percent of the rate that I prefer.
SO DON’T SEND ME ANYMORE FUCKING VIDEOS OR LINKS TO VIDEOS!
If you absolutely feel that I really, truly would value the information that you have encountered in your “research”, then here is what you can do.
- Copy the transcript of the video.
- Paste it into ChatGPT, Deepseek, or the AI of your choice.
- Ask it to format the transcript for reading.
- Save the formatted transcript as a PDF.
- Email me the transcript with a clear description of the PDF contents in the subject.
- Do not send me more than one transcript per month.
I’m not promising that I will read any transcript I am sent, but there is at least a chance that I will. Also, you won’t get spammed, unless, of course, you send me multiple transcripts over the course of a month. And if you can’t bother taking the time to copy the transcript and format it properly for reading, then what on Earth were you thinking sending me the link to the video in the first place?
I understand that most people prefer videos to reading. That’s fine. UATV wouldn’t exist if people didn’t generally prefer videos to blogs, substacks, and books. But it shouldn’t be so hard to understand that not everyone prefers them, or that those who process information faster than the average are likely to do so.