sevaka v0.41: On YouTube

I am in the process of deleting YouTube. Whenever I go on there I get captured by the algorithm and end up wasting hours and hours. It is getting worst and worst as there are a million things with very little value and the AI slop is making sifting through it all annoying.

This is not to say there are not valuable insights to be gleaned. I do value the asymmetrical views of Prof Jiang, Peter Zeihan, Glenn Diesen, and Firstpost and such but I feel like I can engage with them in an alternate manner. I believe the best way to make this happen is through a pull method where I get the content send to me to read when I get time.

Second, there is content that I watch over and over again that I can likely just download and have on my machine. Finally, I do not think I need to be on YouTubr for this. I can use alternative methods.

I am getting less and less value from it. I am getting pulled into junk content, I am watching feel good stuff with no real value, and in general what I watch makes me anxious and doesn’t help me feel good. In a lot of way it pushes my attention into the world as opposed to making me better.

I am going to move back to a News Reader to manage this data.