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There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social -1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Email and texting is eroding our intelligence, but somehow reading is gonna fix it. The fuck do you think emails and texts are? 🤦‍♂️

This is just an ad for the author's book.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Reading with intention.

All that other shit people say or do these things with:

  • only read the headline
  • comment after only reading the headline
  • say “tldr”
  • skim emails
  • disengage from long and detailed group chat chats, skipping to the end and saying “I didn’t read all of that, but…”
  • using AI to summarize emails and long articles

Etc.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

All the problems you listed boil down to someone NOT READING...

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They are all examples of seeking short snippets over long form reading. We are being habituated to do that. And there are people that proudly say and do these things and promote the culture of doing these things. People are doing it in this thread.