I kind of wish they hadn't included Veritasium either. He seems to have gone downhill.

My interest in his videos plunged after that, and it seemed like he was re-alinging for consistent high views over straight hard factual education. Frankly I wish I could purge him from my feed at this point (youtube still recommends all his videos incessantly, despite me not watching one for at least a year now. On paper I am the ideal viewer though, so...)

-Confucius [1]

For certain concepts such as Linear Algebra, for instance books allow me to "do" and understand. Which is why I read more than I watch videos.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2826962/

And for videos specifically, it can obviously help understanding in many cases to have animated visualizations

Besides, teaching videos and also books often share a common weakness: low information density. Youtubers and Authors both like to talk so damn much without saying anything. Give me a good story or documentation catalogue any day, but stop mixing the two.

Also, some of the videos are pretty dang entertaining.

If it is something I am interested in learning in depth, then I would agree that books are usually more efficient.

Well, with a caveat.

Some people appear to record themselves as they pursue their hobbies, then post it to YouTube. (Sometime's it's organic. Sometimes it's partially planned out.) In those cases it is a bit like a very one-sided mentorship. The host will either realize they're doing something that they would never write about, whether it is in a script or a blog or a book, then discuss it. Other times they don't make note of what they're doing, for the same reason they wouldn't write about it, but you see it because they are doing it. Written communication can be lossy.

Behiel is to 3Blue1Brown as a popular children's cartoon is to its late sequel series that aged up with its audience.

Excellent work.

I especially like his more recent trend of going line by line through famous papers. EPR and Bell's Inequality to date.