I have found myself going to YouTube first for solutions as of late, even though I find the medium less effective for learning.
So many websites feel like copy-paste jobs these days that it is difficult to tell whether someone is talking from experience, they are rephrasing something they read by never tried, the content is scraped from another site, or even if it is automatically generated. YouTube does have its problems, but it is more difficult to produce fake content in certain presentation formats.
The sad thing is that books have even been sliding downward in my order of preference. While a great book will blow away almost anything available online, investing good money into a product that doesn't reflect my needs in the end is all too common. I suspect the people who review books simply have different expectations than I.
So many websites feel like copy-paste jobs these days that it is difficult to tell whether someone is talking from experience, they are rephrasing something they read by never tried, the content is scraped from another site, or even if it is automatically generated. YouTube does have its problems, but it is more difficult to produce fake content in certain presentation formats.
The sad thing is that books have even been sliding downward in my order of preference. While a great book will blow away almost anything available online, investing good money into a product that doesn't reflect my needs in the end is all too common. I suspect the people who review books simply have different expectations than I.