Parker Conley
Went through all the archives of publications of high IQ societies
Was this project worthwhile? Would you recommend it to others? If yes, what were the key takeaways? Considering doing this myself.
The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject
(sample comment, to set a standard for quality)
Domain: Video EditingLink: World’s Most Advanced Video Editing Tutorial (Premiere Pro)
Person: Taran Van Hemert
Background: “Editor, Camera Operator, Writer, Host at Linus Tech Tips” for ~10 years (Website).
Why: Incredibly in-depth look into Taran’s video editing workflow for a YouTube channel with 15M subscribers.
(another one)
Domain: Business, Business Communication
Link: GiveWell’s Public Board Meetings (2007–2020 have audio).
People: Elie Hassenfeld, Holden Karnofsky, Timothy Ogden, Rob Reich, Tom Rutledge, Brigid Slipka, Cari Tuna, Julia Wise, and others.
Backgrounds:
Holden Karnofsky. “Director of AI Strategy (formerly CEO) of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell” (Website).
Elie Hassenfeld. co-founder and CEO of GiveWell (LinkedIn).
Timothy Ogden. Chief Knowledge Officer at Geneva Global, Inc.; founding editor of Gartner Press; founder of Sona Partners; chairman of GiveWell (Aspen Institute).
Rob Reich. Political Science professor at Stanford for 26 years (Stanford).
Tom Rutledge. Has worked in finance since 1989 (LinkedIn).
Brigid Sliplka. Director of Philanthropy at ACLU (LinkedIn).
Cari Tuna. President at Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures (Wikipedia).
Julia Wise. Community Liaison at Centre for Effective Altruism (LinkedIn).
Why: I’ve personally found it interesting to listen to these meetings for generally instantiating “what actually is a board meeting?”. They can be listened to just like you would listen to a podcast, in a multi-tasking sort of way.
Perfect—thanks for the links! Will add this and the other submission to the post when I get the chance.
You seem very concerned that people in the videos should have legible symbols of success. I don’t think that much affects how useful the videos are, but just in case I’m wrong [...]
The main driving motivation for this was seeing that The Best Textbooks on Every Subject received traction due to a similar mechanism. Another reason was wanting the tacit knowledge in the videos to be knowledge that’s appealing to learn.
I don’t want the mechanism to stop the post from receiving submissions though; this resource-submission genre seems like the kind that benefits from network effects. If anyone has any thoughts as to whether the mechanism is useful or counterproductive, I would be curious to hear.
Thank you for the recommendation! I think I agree. I will be editing the comments back into the body, but I think it would be useful for the comments to be more legible.
For those reading this, here is the format I recommend (I’ve since edited this recommendation into the body):Domain: Programming, Game Design
Link: Programming livestream VODs
Person: Jonathan Blow
Background: Creator of Braid and The Witness.
Why: Blow livestreams himself coding games and creating a programming language. I imagine people who do similar things would find his livestreams interesting.
Domain: Juggling
Link: Anthony Gato’s juggling routine from 2000
Person: Anthony Gato
Background: Anthony Gato holds several juggling world records. This routine is infamous in the juggling world (here’s a decent juggler commenting on it). As well as the fact that he gave up juggling to work with concrete instead (because it pays the bills). Here’s more context on Gatto and his routine (the guy picking up the balls for him in the video is his father, for example).
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Domain: Physics
Link: “Applied Science”
Person: Ben Krasnow
Background: From his LinkedIn: “I specialize in the design and construction of electromechanical prototypes. My core skillset includes electronic circuit design, PCB layout, mechanical design, machining, and sensor/actuator selection. This allows me to implement and test ideas for rapid evaluation or iteration. Much of the work that I did for my research devices business included a fast timeline, going from customer sketch to final product in less than a month. These products were used to collect data for peer-reviewed scientific papers, and I enjoyed working closely with the end user to solve their data collection challenges. I did similar work at Valve to quickly implement and test internal prototypes.”
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Domain: Small Business, Heavy Machinery Operation, Construction
Link: Andrew Camarata
Background: He has no legible success that I know of, except that he’s wealthy enough to afford many machines, and he’s smart enough that the house he designed and built came out stunning (albeit eccentric).
Why: The YouTube channel of Andrew Camarata communicates a great deal about small business, heavy machinery operation and construction. Some of it he narrates what he’s doing, but he mostly just does it, and you say “Oh, I never realized I could do that with a Skid Steer” or “that’s how to keep a customer happy”. Lots of implicit knowledge about accomplishing heavy engineering projects between an hour and a week long. Of course, if you‘re looking for lessons that would be helpful for an ambitious person in Silicon Valley, it will only help in a very meta way.
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Domain: Heavy Machinery Operation, Farming
Link: FarmCraft101
Person: N/A
Background: No legible symbols of success, other than speaking standard American English like he’s been to college, owning a large farm, and clearly being intelligent.
Why: The channel is nice because he includes all his failures, and goes into articulate detail on how he debugged them. I feel like learned some implicit knowledge about repair strategies. I particularly recommend the series of videos in which he purchases, accidentally sets on fire, and revives an ancient boom lift truck.
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I was on the fence as to whether or not to include those.
Thanks for sharing! Added to the post.
Added, thanks!
Added, thanks! (x2)
Agreed. I added the link to speedrun.com/games to the post. From there readers can navigate to individual games and their respective leaderboards, click on a player, and watch the player’s speedrun YouTube video.
Requests Thread. Post requests for tacit knowledge videos below this comment.
This thread also serves as a memory jogger for those who might have seen videos of the requested types.
@Yoav Ravid: “I’d be interested in tacit knowledge videos about writing, if anyone knows any.”
I would be interested in more studying/learning videos. I found Andy Matuschak’s very interesting.
At one point I had watched a video on YouTube like Upright Citizens Brigade—ASSSSCAT Improv, but with the ASSSSCAT actors rewatching their performance and providing commentary on their thought processes. I would be delighted if anyone knows the original video or has a similar video they know of.
What does the upkeep of model representation and traversal look like in practice?