[sunrunner]

Okay, so you didn't even bother to take a few seconds to step through the video to see if there was anything other than the talking head (I'll help you out a bit, there is).

Either way, it's a step-by-step walk through of the ideas of the original article that introduced Conway's Law and a deeper inspection into ideas about _why_ it might be that way.

If that's not enough then my apologies but I haven't yet found an equivalent article that goes through the ideas in the same way but in the kind of information-dense format that I assume would help you hit your daily macros.

Edit: Accidentally a word

[exceptione]

(I didn't downvote you btw) But anyways, I did step through. And even in the section he should make his point, he couldn't. I rage quit this stuff.

Don't take it personally, you might have found great insight from it. But if you want to see my POV: I can scan, like most humans, a large text in seconds, processing it with a massive parallel network. When I find an anchor of interest, I can scan around for more context. I can go back to sections, to read it deeper.

A video is Gigabyte of download to convey a few bytes of information, dripping slowly over the span of an hour. A text is a few kilobytes, downloaded in an instant, and then it takes a few seconds to scan it, a minute to read some things deeper, and then I can decide if it is worth it to mine deeper. Even then the additional cost will be like 3 minutes.

But, to be fair, I know quite some people that do not have this ability. They struggle to dissect a text, to chop it apart and quickly pull out the information. But that could also be an issue of not being able to give full bandwidth to an information source. Some people can't focus on a text, but like to listen to books while driving for example.

[sunrunner]

(I also didn't, despite the sentiment ;) )

That's completely fair, and I actually completely agree about the information density thing. I honestly prefer well-written concise documentation over tutorial videos for this same reason, however I've not yet found the equivalent text form of this video yet (automatic transcription aside) so it's really the only example I've got that seems to extract some of the most salient points from Conway's paper and puts forward an idea as to _why_ this phenonemon is. Perhaps a blog post in the making.

[brulard]

Man, I don't know what kind of world you live in, but an hour long video is a little too much to swallow when reading HN comments. I even gave it a chance, but had to close the tab after the guy just prepared you for something and then steered away to explain "what is a law". That's absurd.