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title: "Video"
description: "Channels and videos worth watching end to end — mostly about the process of doing one thing extremely well."
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updated: 2026-08-26
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# Video

Channels and videos worth watching end to end — mostly about the process of doing one thing extremely well.

I watch two kinds of video: something explaining how a thing works, and someone documented doing one thing extremely well.

Not the fast-cut, low-density kind. Everything below is worth watching start to finish.

- 3Blue1Brown · Grant Sanderson — The reference answer for mathematical visualisation. His linear algebra series is where I first actually understood what an eigenvector is.
- Primitive Technology · John Plant — No narration, no music, building from nothing. The best engineering documentary there is, and it never calls itself one.
- Practical Engineering · Grady Hillhouse — Explains why infrastructure fails using desktop models. Every episode is a small "oh, that is how".
- Ben Eater · Ben Eater — Builds an 8-bit computer on breadboards, one wire at a time. You come out with a different respect for abstraction layers.
- Every Frame a Painting · Tony Zhou / Taylor Ramos — Long finished, but those two dozen episodes are the best course in film language I have seen.
- Technology Connections · Alec Watson — Twenty minutes on why a dishwasher works the way it does, and it is never twenty minutes too long.