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Dan Olson

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Smarter every Day has talked about this a lot because it's the backbone of that channel: almost any sort of realization in a structured YouTube video is a kind of fiction, a recreation for the the benefit of the audience, for the needs of the story, an emotional truth rather than a literal one.

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Dan Olson's avatar Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social
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By the sheer reality of production the *actual* realization almost certainly happened off-camera, very suddenly, days/weeks/months/years before the delivered video existed, maybe before the video was even A Project

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