Same difference between reading a textbook vs taking a lecture. He brings it to life. There's also personal feedback. His content isn't available in any other format I know of.

Do have a look at the testimonials. He hits the nail on the head on many ideas I could intuit but didn't have words for.

I don't know of any books or speakers to compare him to. He's a unique bridge between academia and industry. I suppose you could say his teachings are available in the many academic papers he sources, but those papers are dense. His curation and contextualizion gets the ideas in a form I can comprehend and apply at work.