Is YouTube beneficial or a waste of time?
Sometimes I wonder how many hours I spent on YouTube watching content I would forget before the next 24 hours would go by. On the contrary I wonder how much I've grown personally from watching content and found useful information I actively benefit from. I recently started using Notion and obsidian. Which *feels* productive for now. But before I have done any actual writing or work on these platforms, I jumped on the next tutorial video for the perfect setup. Tweaking my productivity tracker further and further without doing actual work really summarizes how people chase the feeling of progress instead of any actual progress. This realization made me question YouTube more on whether it is beneficial or useless. My conclusion was somewhere in between. Meaning the benefits I got was obtained wasn't up to questioning but also I was exposed a lot of negative effects almost feeling trapped in Google's algorithm. Starting my thought process The way I use YouTube, I realized that ...