Maris Kreizman: Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books:
It seems to me that there is a fundamental discrepancy between the way readers interact with books and the way the hack-your-brain tech community does. A wide swath of the ruling class sees books as data-intake vehicles for optimizing knowledge rather than, you know, things to intellectually engage with.
For those of us with lofty reading goals (including myself), a reminder that genuine appreciation of reading is about taking one’s time to appreciate the complexity and richness of what books have to offer.