The market for entertainment will always be larger than the market for information.
This is easily observable on the internet (free-market flow of information) where entertainment related content gets a disproportionate amount of clicks and views viz a viz information related content.
There are videos titled “36 GIRLY HACKS YOU WISH YOU KNEW SOONER” that have had 2.7 million views in 5 months (this is a real example by the way, but I won’t link to it. LMM does not link to bullshit.)
Meanwhile, content that is dense in information barely has any eyes on it. CS183B, a Stanford course produced by Y Combinator and taught by actual startup founder billionaires averages about 150,000 average views per lecture (in over six years) across it’s twenty 50-minute long lectures.
I happened to stumble across this course, watched all 20 of the lectures, and found them to be very insightful – every speaker has in-the-trenches experience and is sharing his lessons from his business journey.
I want to increase its visibility, so this article contains all the 20 lectures along with working links (some of them have different sources than the official page as many of the original links have died over the years) to the recommended books and readings for each lecture. The readings are meant to be read before watching the lectures.
Readings:
Books recommended: