Comment by sixtyj
16 hours ago
The older I get, the more I appreciate texts (any).
Videos, podcasts... I have them transcribed because even though I like listening to music, podcasts are best written for speed of comprehension... (at least for me, I don't know about others).
Audio is horrible (for me) for information transfer - reading (90% of the time) is where it's at
Not sure why that is either - because I look at people extolling the virtues of podcasts, saying that they are able to multi task (eg. driving, walking, eat dinner), and still hear the message - which leaves me aghast
Brittany Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time.mp3
To paraphrase the overused 'ol Sapir-Whorf, if all you think about is information that can be best represented as text, all your examples will be ones text wins at.
Not sure, text wins hands down at sharing the ideas of one person, with many, across space and time.
I can read the thoughts of a philosopher who lived on literally the other side of the world, several thousand years ago.
I'm unsure of, but would love to know, any other medium capable of that
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Podcasts are fine for entertainment, great for tuning out people or the traffic. I don’t expect to absorb information quickly, but try reading anything serious on the train when some guy is non-stop on his phone using his outside voice.
Ha! I used to
I had a 53 minute (each way) commute on the train, and I found it perfect for reading papers or learning skills - I was always amazed that the background noise would disappear and I could get lost in the text
Best study time ever.