Short (meta) blog post about what kind of educational materials I prefer, and why: I generally prefer learning material that is impersonal, and doesn’t contain author-specific idiosyncrasies. When I’m reading or watching something, I’m not interested in hearing the author give a ‘performance’, I’m typically interested strictly in the key information being conveyed. As such, I don’t like seeing jokes, quirky formulations or other similar things through which the author seemingly ...