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Let us keep that joke aside for a while and accept the fact: “It is easy to find stuff when it is properly organised”. It’s cool only in comics, to have your bed heaped up with stuff scattered randomly.

I’m a huge fan of the word ‘efficiency’ and also ‘ninjas’ of course and ‘cats’. Again, quips aside, efficiency, it is a properly designed action that would give you a maximum output from a minimum input. It doesn’t spontaneously happen. It takes a conscious effort to design that action. Some people do it for you, they put in the effort needed and make your lives easier. These people are respected, they manage to gather a huge influx of goodwill from their audience (you). Such an effort directed to design that action gives them a sense of satisfaction and hence helps them to earn a living out of the work they enjoy doing.

‘Efficiency’ gives me a direction to discuss: Playlists on Youtube.

People who make Playlists on Youtube or upload videos/vlogs that are basically directed to make Youtube organized, are the people I’ve been talking about. I can recall tens of such people, who today, actively post videos/playlists on Youtube that are either compilation of a huge amounts of data from different places or an eclectic mix of information aimed at discussing a single topic/issue.

The first person I’d bring to light essentially has to be Michael Stevens. He posts these greatly informative videos overflowing with facts in his Youtube channel VSauce. His videos usually belong to LUT, DOT, Leanback, DONGS, IMG! etc, the categories he organizes them into. My favourite among these categories is the DONG category. It is an acronym and DONG stands for ‘cool free stuff you can Do Online Now, Guys‘. With each video in the DONG category directing you to a 15 or so other interesting places on the internet, for me is the most engrossing category. Similarly, videos from some categories in this channel are bound to keep you wondering for a while. Other videos will force you to replay them again and again an you’ll notice something new every single time. Some other interesting Youtube channels you’d want to go to are CGPGrey, SciShow, MinutePhysics, DanBrown (Pogobat), Veritasium, CrashCourse, Numberphile, SixtySymbols etc…

Tell me in the comments about the other channels you follow, how they help you to find/stumble-over things easily.