> is the length of the article proportional to the gained knowledge
It is. But I'm going to go against the grain here and say that timewise it's not worth it (I'm biased as I already knew most of the things I saw in the article while skimming it). I would just watch the Veritasium video and move on with my life. Or go down a wikipedia rabbit hole starting at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr.... I appreciate the author's work, but this type of content is not for me. I suspect it's also not for the other self-proclaimed 'nerds' in the comment section, I think people just appreciate the work put into it and the fact that it's not following the style of shallow short SEO driven content you frequently find online. I'm skeptical that even 50% of the people in this comment section actually read all of it.
N=1, but I read the ones I'm interested in top to bottom. I didn't read this one specifically, but I finished the ones about lenses and mechanical watches in one sitting.
If it's about something that's really interesting to me, his work is absolutely fantastic. If it's not, I'll still take a peek because I like playing with the animations.
It is. But I'm going to go against the grain here and say that timewise it's not worth it (I'm biased as I already knew most of the things I saw in the article while skimming it). I would just watch the Veritasium video and move on with my life. Or go down a wikipedia rabbit hole starting at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr.... I appreciate the author's work, but this type of content is not for me. I suspect it's also not for the other self-proclaimed 'nerds' in the comment section, I think people just appreciate the work put into it and the fact that it's not following the style of shallow short SEO driven content you frequently find online. I'm skeptical that even 50% of the people in this comment section actually read all of it.