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  • I agree with you one hundred percent.

    But I also know a decent amount about the failure of literacy education in the US in the past 20+ years, so I’m not surprised that many people in the younger generations prefer video. For too many of them, reading is a chore.

    Hell, I know plenty of people in my own generation who will tell you they haven’t read a novel since high school like it’s a point of pride.


  • We always knew there weren’t enough of us to matter. (At least, those of us on the younger end have always known. Maybe the older members of our generation didn’t realize it for a while.)

    I didn’t expect that to play out with Boomers holding on to political power until GenXers were all old enough to retire, but it seems to be playing out that way.


  • Have you tried video tutorials? I have noticed that a lot of younger people are more likely to look up tutorials on YouTube than written ones.

    As a GenXer, I’m kind of horrified by how much of the “how-to” universe is shifting from written instructions to video.

    (No, I don’t want a video tutorial for how to knit a scarf. I want a normal pattern. Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.)

    Seriously, though, the next time you go through something with this employee, use a screen recorder to capture the process and then share the recording with him. Maybe it will help.