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In order to make something good, you need to have the right combination of three things: Quality, Discernment and Taste. This video is about quality vs quantity, the paradox of quality, how to make good content and good videos, etc. Based on my experience over the last decade running a collaborative creative business, MinuteEarth, where we do regular internal reflection and training on the craft of science communication.
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You need to read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Paraphrasing massively, 'quality' is a measure of the amount of attention human beings have paid to an object or creation. It is a form of communication from the authors or manufacturers that can be perceived by human beings who recognise its 'fitness for purpose'. The book captures it better.
@FedericoEdoardoGaravaglia Says:
And whats the center triangle?
@ethribin4188 Says:
This just sounds like Minutphysics had a huge argument with someone about their taste....
@bullzebub Says:
talking about good enough without talking about time investment and diminishing returns is ...weird.
@IamthePurah Says:
0:42 easily heard that, well, I’m not like 40, so of course I can lol
@peterczekaj7596 Says:
As a musician, this video hits home harder than most. I love it and it puts into graphical realism the constant struggle to attain "Perfection".
@rarebeeph1783 Says:
Your point about discernment influencing how different people interpret the same thing, around 4:00, reminds me of a phenomenon in speedrunning: when someone says "this run sucks" during or after a world record run. Top players have often trained extensively in each area, but nobody is perfect; compared to individual level runs, a full game run will always make more mistakes per level. So while every runner wants what they would call a clean run, top players will see their couple of small mistakes per split and call it sloppy, whereas newer runners might get by with no huge mistakes and call it clean, not discerning how much time they bled over the course of things.
@phuonglinh4775 Says:
2+2=5
@MykePagan Says:
Robert Pirsig… is that you?
@zuzupetals4794 Says:
I only watched 30 seconds due to the low quality.
@ratlab1741 Says:
i never realised how much you cared about lighting until you mentioned it about 4 times in this video, and im glad you do cus seeing hand shadows would make this almost unwatchable
@NickLAnderson Says:
🙏🏼
@damie9412 Says:
Nive
@moadot720 Says:
I love the song! Song name?
@Joeyjojoshabbadoo Says:
This is a disturbing video. When the human race goes extinct, or close to it, in the next 20 to 50 years, we can look back on a video like this, and get a small window in to how we got effete enough to allow it to happen....
@angngocminh3830 Says:
This explains
EVERYTHING!
@zivamayne Says:
5:19 Why are these people dogs? Cats, perhaps?
@BKScience812 Says:
Din, the goddess of quality; Farore, the goddess of taste; and Nayru, the goddess of discernment = the Triforce of Quality
@AvisPraeda777 Says:
Everything is arbitrary. Henry speaks as if there is an unbiased body that judges the actions and decisions of people. There isn't. Everything in this video is decided on the whim of someone else. Arbitrary to its very core.
"People love themselves more than anyone else, but they love their opinions more."
"The bullet stays down range." It doesn't matter whether your attempt was good or bad. You're already gathering data from your first shot while lining up the second, using data from previous shots to help line up the next shot. "The bullet stays down range."
@jibriltv1828 Says:
This is the 421st comment
@jpb6 Says:
I give this 9,99/1000
@Jaxonstv Says:
Boi when I saw what it looked like I thought it was the triforce from the legend of Zelda 💀
@becomepostal Says:
I’d like to see a video about quality in software development.
@LazyOtaku Says:
5 million subs, under 500k views after a year.
Tells you how much people care
@Caprisk_official Says:
The triforce of quality
The triforce of perception
The triforce of objectives
@jarPlays11 Says:
Aren't sommethings more valubalubale thnen othwwr teings
@davidvandersterre Says:
Excellent video, 0 out of 10
@nsTurkish Says:
Turkish subtitles please
@apollovaljean3076 Says:
You dont know what quality means. Hire an engineer to your team. This video is awful. really really stupid, and wrong.
@Ryan.Matlock Says:
1:11 I saw Babylon too
@notthedroidsyourelookingfo4026 Says:
So.. you were unhappy with a collaboration?
@MykePagan Says:
Did you know that this topic (“Quality”) is the theme of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig?
@genarotorresvargas5513 Says:
It's been a long time since I learn something this usefull
Thank you
@AlastorNahIdWinRadioDemon Says:
So in a way discernment is knowing the facts of how something is supposed to be within the context of previously known information on the subject? Just trying to make sure I got the right takeaway from the this video.
@nilspatrik Says:
Thank you for this, never really thought about it like that before. Would be interesting to know if you think that there is such a thing as a intrinsic value of taste? In your example of different taste with the same discernment you talk about the crookedness of the painting, that one might be ok with it being more crooked. This gives the idea that there is a "correct" answer to where the taste is supposed be on the scale, even if you haven't numbered it. Do you think this intrinsic value is something that exists in all kinds of taste?
@trevorgrover5619 Says:
This could also apply to the quality of communication or argument
@garcipat Says:
This also applies to software engineering i guess
@flavvsdasilver6442 Says:
I got that "Snarky " reference at 0:55 - TechnologyConnections and your impression of him wasn't too shabby :)
@Fireninja2343 Says:
i suck at discerning stuff
@havenbastion Says:
having discernment is a prerequisite for the other two. this is not a trinity
@deleted-something Says:
Cool
@jarrodyuki7081 Says:
ugh!!!
@jack-is-back Says:
1:04 I can think of so many examples
@MarkWitucke Says:
Well thought out and clearly argued
@ConfuSomu Says:
3:48 thinking with portals!
@miinyoo Says:
Discernment is a skill like any other. The way you develop it is good old fashioned practice. If you're a cine buff, watch, analyze shit loads of movies and then make videos with people for fun. You'll be a better -- whatever you are doing. Writer, read assloads, write constantly... etc. It's a visceral skill too so if you can notice your "gut" telling you something, well you've got that down. All you have to do is listen. One sure fire trick to develop good guts is to look at bad work or work that is contrary to your taste and then your own works as well. If you get the cringe however slight, that's your gut asking for mercy. Something is off and now you have to figure out why. Once you have discerned then you can go about solving whatever problem you are discerning. That's a different skill but equally as important to creating quality anything.
For example, in my case, I'm an editor. I'm really good at discerning what pictures are good and how they go together at a pace that feels good while juxtaposing images and ideas to tell a story that keeps people engaged the whole way through story arcs. When my gut says something's off with the editing I have the skills and experience to fix it. However, I'm not hugely practiced on set so if the lighting is off, I can discern that it is but would struggle with how to solve the problem. That's fine if you're not an expert because you can go to someone who is hence the collaborative nature of filmmaking. That's also how I got good at editing, not just by doing it a lot but learning form those who are better than me and asking for advice. Most people will enthusiastically oblige. Even now after 20 years of doing it, if I'm stuck. Ask a colleague, see what they think.
@StarkRG Says:
I feel like the topic of this video was inspired by real life BTS disagreements at MinutePhysics (or the other Minute channels)
@glebevstigneev484 Says:
Phaedrus would love this video
@AliceYobby Says:
Getting dangerously close to “metaphysics” with some of these trains of thought, Mr. Minutephysics
@jeronimonunes Says:
Thanks! I was struggling a lot with this at my last job. It will surely be easier to handle disagreements sending this video to my colleges LOL. I never thought how programmers and YouTubers can have a lot in common. Thanks again.
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