TILs are useless. Reading TILs is like watching Shorts/Reels – just a way to pass the time. They are superficial and not valuable for meaningful lea

TILs are junk food

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2025-01-10 07:00:04

TILs are useless. Reading TILs is like watching Shorts/Reels – just a way to pass the time. They are superficial and not valuable for meaningful learning. They don't improve your skills, they don't really teach you anything, they don't even stay in your memory for long. They are but a waste of cognitive resources.

TILs have a terrible signal-to-noise ratio. Yes, you might find a gem once in a while. But the amount of rocks you have to go through before hitting one makes TILs a terrible way to spend time. Reading TILs probably beats binge-watching TV shows. But not by a wide margin.

TILs create FOMO. Oh dear, if I don't read TILs, I might miss something important. What a terrible, frightening thought. How am I supposed to learn a ton of useful tricks if not by reading tiny snippets of everyone else's findings?

I follow (insert name)'s TILs and they are awesome. I'm sure that's what your brain thinks. And my brain thinks that watching reels for two hours every day is great because it is fun and requires no effort. Still, reels don't do me any good. And neither do TILs.