When I was running Lutris Technologies in the mid-90's, everybody knew I had a fascination in two things: serendipity (as it influences business) and what I called "magic numbers." I'll write about the serendipity stuff another time... but I used the concept of magic numbers as associated with the hiring of any new employee and the eventual impact on our Lutris culture.
But, to get back to the real reason for this posting... and that's about what I've observed recently and that observation is that video has become a true knowledge base.
My favorite example is Charlie Rose at http://www.charlierose.com When I just feel like learning something knew or wonder if he ever interviewed somebody I'm curious about, I'll go to his website and search.
It used to be that you searched for text, such as wikipedia. I still do that. But if I'm in a real learning mode, I go video first.
The impact? I used to think of Youtube as a resource for music and kitten videos. Instead, I watch videos on Quantum Mechanics or a new salesforce.com feature. Or, as I just did, I search Youtube for videos on "defining mongodb schemas."
It's a wonderful phenomenon. The charlierose.com is particularly interesting to me because I have always suspected his politics and social views were similar to mine. So I know I'm going to like his questions of those he interviews. So it's more than a site of pure knowledge. It's one that supports an angle that I relate to.
So, somewhere along the line, in the past 3 or so years, and maybe I'm just late to the knowledge party, but one of those magic #'s was reached. I guess it's the # that represents a sufficient # of topics (relative to my direction of personal growth and interest) supported by a critical mass of videos. It's a curious kind of transformation because you don't realize it until it's been there for awhile. Fun stuff.
So back to my mongo video...
David
- The 7th employee and, all of a sudden, the need to call meetings.
- The 10th employee and, all of a sudden, the need to hire an office manager.
- The 12th employee and, all of a sudden, the puzzling interruption in the perfect flow and distribution of knowledge (amongst all of us).
But, to get back to the real reason for this posting... and that's about what I've observed recently and that observation is that video has become a true knowledge base.
My favorite example is Charlie Rose at http://www.charlierose.com When I just feel like learning something knew or wonder if he ever interviewed somebody I'm curious about, I'll go to his website and search.
It used to be that you searched for text, such as wikipedia. I still do that. But if I'm in a real learning mode, I go video first.
The impact? I used to think of Youtube as a resource for music and kitten videos. Instead, I watch videos on Quantum Mechanics or a new salesforce.com feature. Or, as I just did, I search Youtube for videos on "defining mongodb schemas."
It's a wonderful phenomenon. The charlierose.com is particularly interesting to me because I have always suspected his politics and social views were similar to mine. So I know I'm going to like his questions of those he interviews. So it's more than a site of pure knowledge. It's one that supports an angle that I relate to.
So, somewhere along the line, in the past 3 or so years, and maybe I'm just late to the knowledge party, but one of those magic #'s was reached. I guess it's the # that represents a sufficient # of topics (relative to my direction of personal growth and interest) supported by a critical mass of videos. It's a curious kind of transformation because you don't realize it until it's been there for awhile. Fun stuff.
So back to my mongo video...
David
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