Caught in YouTube Hoarding Hell

We see many a warning about programming students getting caught in "tutorial hell",  ... that meaning they watch YouTubes or other tutorials all day but never put hands to keyboard and do some coding on their own, The practice is at times analogized to watching martial art movies on TV all day but never visiting the dojo to practice and feel what it's like to get your feet swept out from under you. Watching is not learning. The latter requires hands-on practice.

But that is not what this post is about.

Instead, the current focus terms here are "YouTube" and "Hoarding" per the title.  

The YouTube recommendations algorithm is structured to keep you coming back for more and more lest you miss some new but temporary and slipping out of sight good posting.

In other words, the need to keep watching feeds on the psychological fear of missing out and on the fear of loss and of detachment.

To counter this, some of us (me) bookmark every potentially good tutorial for possible "later" viewing. It becomes a hoarding hell hole. And a huge time suck. Without ever accomplishing something real, something of substance.

As a result, we never get back to the coding dojo to actually practice what we claim to want to truly learn (in my case, the Python programming language).

Some psychologists suggest that the need for hoarding arises out of some childhood detachment trauma. A loved one (parent, other relative) whom the child had developed a deep attachment to, suddenly breaks the bond. The child loses trust and seeks other forms of attachment, including with things rather than with people. Discarding an acquired "thing" rekindles the childhood trauma. So we try to hang on to everything we spot as being possibly useful in the future.

TBC ...

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