Comment by r-johnv
13 days ago
I absolutely love that Grady includes full transcripts of his videos.
It's much faster to read the article than watch the video, even though that hurts him by 1 view.
I just watched parts of the video after reading because I wanted to see his explanations.
One of the few really good creators out there.
Reading the transcript doesn’t even give you 10% of the information actually conveyed in the video which is why it’s so much faster.
I guess his area is really close to my field (Mechanical Engineering + Robotics) so what I learn from his videos is less the concepts themselves and more the interesting examples of them in the real world.
For example that hydroplaning is a real consequence on runways; or that higher takeoff weight has an order of magnitude greater effect on runway wear than the shear force of braking during landing.
I also learn from Grady's phenomenal skill at communicating technical concepts from our field in layman accessible terms! Most times I prefer to watch his videos and appreciate what he does, but there are days that I'm in the mood to read rather than watch. I'm glad that he gives us that option.
If you already understand the concepts you're not gaining much by watching the video.
If you don't then I'm sure it's better than nothing but idk if stock footage is where you should be developing your mental model of how a tire hydroplanes or how a paved transfers load into what's below it.
Some of it is stock but Grady has a lot of custom animations and miniature scale replicas in his videos all the time.
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