Comment by tqi
2 months ago
Loom is one of my least favorite products because it enables lazy creators to offload the work of organizing and editing their thoughts onto the viewers. So instead of one person spending 30 minutes distilling their thoughts into a coherent narrative once, each member of their audience is forced to do that work separately.
Its helpful in certain cases for sure but you hit the nail on the head. Totally enables a lazy approach where everyone now needs to waste time watching a video so collectively the cost is much higher in terms of time spent.
Many people don't absorb information the same way. A visual demonstration tends to help me understand things in a quarter the time reading about it might. I know I'm not alone in this regard. You can always increase video speed to increase information density. Being able to accommodate folks with different learning styles is part of being in a team.
I 100% agree that a visual demonstration is very valuable, however my objection is less about information density and more about structure and clarity. In my experience these videos are rarely carefully planned and structured keynotes, but rather improvised, meandering, stream of consciousness brain dumps.