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Musings on training content

Perhaps too early to say, but curated content for which you have to pay through your nose is probably dead. 

For one, most content creators have bloated content. A typical course is broken into so many videos (yes, in theory, all are short), but there is still too much noise. Getting to the core of the course is difficult. 

Second, most course creators create their own framework - and with good reason because it is their brain at work and is based off their experience (and sometimes, common frameworks are probably copyrighted or just too common). As a company, those frameworks may not work for you because you may not like that framework or you may have an alternate framework in use. 

Third, people (atleast in startups) and leaders (everywhere) have no time, so the overall usage of this content is quite low. 

Fourth, for the most part, searching for good content is like searching for something to watch on Netflix - impossible to know if any course is good, unless you actually go through it. And getting specialised courses is almost impossible.   

There are many ways to make it work - but just subscribing to a content provider wont give you much traction. 


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