I learned that organizations treat employee time taking training videos as an externality with no consequence. That was pretty illuminating.

It’s interesting how places are happy to set up a required training video for an hour that 25k people must take. That’s the equivalent of 12 contractor person years. If I wanted to put out a contract for 25k hours there’s all sorts of reviews and governance around spending $2.5M. But not around having everyone spend an hour.

That and I’ve learned that training videos have to be repeatedly completed even if they are the same exact thing. I have to watch the same exact ethics class every year. It’s the same class. I can’t test out of it, I must sit and watch an unskippable video each year.

I actually think that the first eye tracking no ad skipping tech will be implemented in institutional training videos.