Name: Why I Left Veritasium
Uploaded: 2026-02-24T21:32:05.000Z
Duration: 13 min 58 s

I was the first full time writer director that Derek hired for veritasium.

我是 Derek 在 Veritasium 聘請的第一位全職 writer director。

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Between September 2020 and January 2025, I wrote and directed so many videos that I am so proud of.

從 2020 年 9 月到 2025 年 1 月，我寫了好多影片，也拍了好多影片，我真的非常驕傲。

During my time at Veritasium, I flew in a helicopter while Adam Savage, one of my childhood heroes, flung pennies at my boss.

在我待在 Veritasium 的期間，我搭著直升機，而我童年英雄之一的 Adam Savage，則朝我老闆丟銅板。

I got completely soaked in the world's largest rainfall simulator in Japan.

我在日本世界上最大的降雨模擬器裡，全身濕透。

I stayed awake for 28 hours straight, shoveling charcoal and iron sand, smelting iron, which ended up inside of a katana.

我連續 28 小時沒睡，鏟了木炭和鐵砂，冶煉了鐵，最後這些鐵變成了武士刀的一部分。

This is step one of making a Japanese sword.

這是製作日本武士刀的第一步。

我有機會用到一把真正的武士刀。

I've had so many incredible experiences from working on Veritasium.

在 Veritasium 工作，我經歷了好多超棒的體驗。

就像，這大概是史上最棒的一天了。

It was so much work, it was so stressful.

Most importantly, I got to make what I think is some pretty great art with some incredible people who I am so lucky to call my friends.

最重要的是，我跟一群超棒的朋友一起創作了我認為很棒的作品，我很幸運能稱他們為朋友。

I learned how to be a science communicator from one of the greatest of all time.

我向史上最偉大的科學傳播者之一學習。

I got to share some incredible stories with tens of millions of people.

我有機會跟數千萬人分享超讚的故事。

With all of you, I couldn't be more grateful.

謝謝你們大家，我真的非常感激。

All I wanted to do with my professional life was to make videos and tell stories about science.

我這輩子職涯最想做的，就是拍影片講述科學故事。

And in January 2025, I made the very hard decision to leave Veritasium.

所以在 2025 年一月，我做了一個非常艱難的決定，離開 Veritasium。

If there was, I would most certainly milk it for views, but there's genuinely nothing here.

如果有的話，我絕對會拿來炒作賺點閱率，但這裡真的什麼都沒有。

I was in Portugal for his wedding last year.

去年我去葡萄牙參加他的婚禮。

I'm also friends with Emily, who just started her own channel, and it's really, really good.

我跟 Emily 也是朋友，她剛創了自己的頻道，而且真的、真的超棒。

And with Casper and Gregor and Henry and Sully and Peter and Fabio and Jakob and so many other wonderful humans who still work at Veritasium.

還有 Casper、Gregor、Henry、Sully、Peter、Fabio、Jakob，以及 Veritasium 裡許多其他很棒的夥伴們。

I miss working with them and I'm really proud to see their ongoing success.

我真的很想念和他們一起工作，也很為他們持續的成功感到驕傲。

Having more science communication than the world is a good thing, and Veritasium is a very good thing.

世界上有更多科學傳播是一件好事，而 Veritasium 更是件好事。

I feel very grateful to have joined the channel at 7 million subscribers and to leave at 17 seeing a change from a tiny team of two or three to a team of more than 20 full time employees.

我很感謝我在訂閱者 700 萬時加入這個頻道，並在訂閱者 1700 萬時離開，看到從兩三人的小團隊成長到超過 20 名全職員工的轉變。

To go through those structural changes and the expansion of the business, all of this has been invaluable to me.

經歷了這些結構性的改變和事業的擴張，這一切對我來說都非常有價值。

I've spent years delaying starting my own channel, wanting to learn as much as I could about the art of science communication.

我花了這麼多年延遲開創自己的頻道，因為我想盡可能多地學習科學傳播的藝術。

I just wanted to be the best science communicator that I could be.

我只想成為我能成為的最好的科學傳播者。

I was gonna start a channel when I was 22, when I finished up my undergrad in physics.

我本來打算 22 歲，大學部物理學唸完的時候開頻道。

But I ended up doing a PhD in physics education research instead to learn how to make better science communication videos with the same research supervisor as Derek.

但我後來卻唸了物理教育研究的博士，跟 Derek 是同一個指導教授，來學習怎麼做出更好的科學傳播影片。

And I was going to start a channel towards the end of my PhD, but

我原本打算在博士快結束的時候開頻道，但是

Derek reached out and asked if I wanted to write something with him.

Derek 聯絡了我，問我想不想跟他一起寫點東西。

And of course I said Y, which turned into this job.

當然，我說好，然後就變成了這份工作。

I spent the last decade training up to be a science communicator and making stuff for other people.

我花了過去十年訓練自己成為一名科學傳播者，也幫別人製作內容。

You might even find my terrible attempts on the Internet without much searching, but

就算不用怎麼找，你可能都還能在網路上找到我那些很糟糕的嘗試，但是

But before we get to that, I want to share three things that I learned at Veritasium that made me a much better science communicator.

但在我們開始之前，我想分享我在 Veritasium 學到的三件事，這些讓我成為一個更好的科學傳播者。

The first is that there's a difference between a story and a topic.

第一件事是，故事和主題之間是有差異的。

Your job is to tell stories that illuminate topics.

你的工作是講述能闡明主題的故事。

Geochemistry is a topic and it's kind of boring, but

地球化學是一個主題，而且有點無聊，但是

you can tell a story that focuses on the guy who tried to measure the age of the earth by comparing the ratio of uranium to lead in ancient rocks, but

你可以講一個故事，聚焦在一個試圖透過比較古代岩石中鈾和鉛的比例來測量地球年齡的人，但他

kept getting the wrong number because of lead contamination.

卻因為鉛汙染而一直得到錯誤的數字。

Leading him to invent the modern day clean room and go on a decade long crusade to get lead additives banned.

這讓他發明瞭現代的無塵室，並展開了長達十年的運動，要求禁止鉛添加物。

And the amount of science that you can explain where you're telling the story is staggering.

而你在講故事的同時，可以闡述的科學內容是驚人的。

Also, this story ties into another story that's much darker.

此外，這個故事還牽涉到另一個更黑暗的故事。

It turns out that the same guy who put lead in Gasoline also invented CFCs which have wrecked the ozone layer.

結果發現，把鉛加進汽油的同一個人，也發明瞭破壞臭氧層的氟氯碳化物。

40 million people stuck around to watch that story and they learned a bunch of science along the way.

有四千萬人留下來看這個故事，他們也學到很多科學知識。

The second thing I learned is that as a science communicator, your job is to go deeper to explain things in ways people haven't heard before.

第二點我學到的是，身為一個科學傳播者，你的工作就是要深入挖掘，用大家沒聽過的方式來解釋事情。

To find facts that people haven't found to find mistakes and misconceptions and find better ways of moving people towards the truth.

去找出大家沒發現的事實，找出錯誤和迷思，然後找到更好的方法引導大家走向真相。

I found a mistake while I was working on the first video that I wrote for the channel about how Kodak exposed nuclear testing.

我在寫第一個關於柯達如何揭露核子試爆的頻道影片時，發現了一個錯誤。

There was a mistake in all of the reporting, including in the testimony that was given by a Senator in the 90s.

所有的報導都有錯誤，包括九零年代參議員的證詞。

They said that the film was photo film, but it was X ray film.

他們說那部電影是照相底片，但其實是 X 光底片。

They said that it was packed with wheat husks, but it was actually packed with strawboard.

他們說裡面塞滿了麥麩，但實際上塞滿的是稻草板。

And it felt so good to find it and to fix it and make a video that set the record straight.

找到它、修正它，然後製作一部釐清事實的影片，感覺真的很棒。

The video is now the definitive artifact about that topic, and it doesn't have that mistake.

那部影片現在是關於那個主題的權威紀錄，而且沒有那個錯誤了。

I'm not saying that I haven't gotten things wrong.

But I really do aspire to bring people the truth, and going deeper is part of that.

但我真的很希望能帶給大家真相，而深入探究就是其中的一部分。

A lot of the time the detail won't be something that anyone would even notice, but

很多時候，這些細節甚至不會有人注意到，但

There is an animation in the universe's hostile to computers, where a cosmic ray flips one of the bits inside the guidance system of an A330, causing the plane to nosedive.

在「宇宙對電腦的敵意」這部影片裡，有一個動畫，描寫一道宇宙射線翻轉了 A330 導航系統中的一個位元，導致飛機俯衝。

I wanted to make sure that we showed the right bit being flipped.

我希望確保我們展示的是正確的位元被翻轉了。

So I spent hours looking through the manual and doing calculations to make sure it was the right one.

所以我花了幾個小時研究手冊並進行計算，以確保它是正確的那個。

The animation was on screen for maybe four seconds.

那個動畫在螢幕上可能只出現了四秒。

Likely no one noticed, but I noticed, and I'm proud that I put in that work.

可能沒人注意到，但我注意到了，而且我很自豪我付出了這些努力。

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