good learning material part 2

In good learning material part 1, I talked mostly about visual books of my childhood and teenage years. I want to concentrate on good learning material of my adulthood today.

During the 2010's, the french online business world was ruled by people making a lot of tiny courses, fast and cheap-ish. I LOVED this trend and bought A LOT of courses during that decade. The ones that really stuck with me were the audio-based ones.

I remember specifically one from a French copywriter where he talked about how he was prepping a sale page, what was going through his mind and what kind of info he wanted to put on the page in the end.

It was like being inside his head. The audio format really helped because you could walk around and immerse yourself in the process.

Another big advantage to these courses for clients was that you could download them and keep them, even when their creators disappeared or when you lost your password. I still have most of my audio courses somewhere on my computer.

It really worked well for theory, for stuff you had to understand to be able to DO afterwards. It wouldn't work as well for the history based learning of the books in the first part of this series.

In the same 'short course' category, but visual, I learned plenty from people simply sharing their screens and doing the work live. (it made me totally allergic to presentations that only consist of telling).

AntoineBM's courses had a huge influence over what I felt I was capable of doing.

You could put in this category any video-based tutorial where the person was DOING stuff for real. No walk-through of the interface, but actually posting something or putting together a website or structuring something.

I talked about this here too : zara zhang on code as a medium and in lists are clues, about Sandi Hester.

The recurrent thing here is : showing (again), but in a hands-on way. As close as possible to a craft master and his pupil, with the added bonus of asynchronicity.