# Why I make video tutorials

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2021-03-15
- **Format:** Video · 14 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Community, Career, Industry trends
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/why-i-make-video-tutorials
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/aNBzVLhgqWk

I explain the two reasons behind making video tutorials: what motivates me to share content at all, and why I choose video as the format. I trace it back to learning creative software through lynda.com in 2006, discovering I'm a visual learner with dyslexia, and my belief that video is the most accessible learning medium.

## Key takeaways

- My motivation traces back to learning web development, Photoshop and InDesign via lynda.com instructors like Linda Weinman, Deke McClelland and Terry White in 2006
- Discovering my dyslexia after university revealed why I learn far better through visual formats than through reading
- I make videos to reach the many people who are visual learners but don't realise it, giving them the opportunity I found too late
- Video has only recently become a serious learning tool thanks to improved bandwidth and infrastructure
- Video lowers barriers to entry globally and bypasses literacy or skim-reading skills that books assume
- I deliberately avoid blogs and books, favouring video and sketch notes to challenge the norms of the visualisation community

## Chapters

- 0:21 Two ways to ask why
- 0:41 Learning creative software in 2006
- 4:35 Discovering dyslexia and visual learning
- 6:22 Creators who inspired me
- 8:02 Giving others the same opportunity
- 9:44 Video as the most accessible format
- 12:24 Breaking barriers around the world
- 13:38 Wrap up

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/why-i-make-video-tutorials

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