Your active search and your writing are both selecting for
(Me not realizing that is the 1st part of the joke, with the 2nd part being that maybe [quote] is the reason I’m like that.)
Your posts on chemistry and engineering revived some curiosity
Thanks!
I already knew 3 out of 4 of the YouTube channels you mentioned, which made me more pessimistic about how much high-quality, easy-to-digest material I might be missing.
I was deliberately choosing popular channels that uploaded a lot. You might also like https://www.construction-physics.com/archive?sort=new but you probably already saw that. As for obscure things you probably haven’t seen, well, here are some random bookmarks of mine:
You can also use something like https://hn-buddy.com/ or look at weekly top posts for mid-size subreddits if you want; a pretty high % of high-quality posts are on blogs that only have 2 or 3 posts.
There’s a trend, I think, towards people making a youtube video instead of a blog post for interesting things, and that has a lot of obvious advantages, but also means that indexing by search engines is worse, they’re buried in a larger amount of junk content, and there’s less cross-linking between people and posts.
(Me not realizing that is the 1st part of the joke, with the 2nd part being that maybe [quote] is the reason I’m like that.)
Thanks!
I was deliberately choosing popular channels that uploaded a lot. You might also like https://www.construction-physics.com/archive?sort=new but you probably already saw that. As for obscure things you probably haven’t seen, well, here are some random bookmarks of mine:
typical examples of personal projects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdXOS-B0Bus
frequent uploads on China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT9i1vKkDA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neOjEHJDjJU
examples of blogs with a lot of posts:
https://eighteenthelephant.com/
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/
https://macwright.com/writing
You can also use something like https://hn-buddy.com/ or look at weekly top posts for mid-size subreddits if you want; a pretty high % of high-quality posts are on blogs that only have 2 or 3 posts.
There’s a trend, I think, towards people making a youtube video instead of a blog post for interesting things, and that has a lot of obvious advantages, but also means that indexing by search engines is worse, they’re buried in a larger amount of junk content, and there’s less cross-linking between people and posts.