Deep Habits: Read a (Real) Book Slowly - Study Hacks - Cal Newport - http://calnewport.com/blog...
Jan 6, 2015
from
Jessie,
ma∟ıĸ,
Eivind,
Jenny H.,
piikummitus,
Jason in #FFurgatory,
ⓒⓔⓐ,
Jennifer Dittrich,
Victor Ganata,
and
Irrational Numbers
liked this
"There was a time when intellectual engagement necessarily included long hours reading old-fashioned paper tomes. But in an age when a digital attention economy is ascendant, it’s now possible to satisfy this curiosity without ever consuming more than a couple hundred highly digested and simplified words at a time."
- Maitani
"There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with this new form of lightweight information consumption — the problem is the behaviors it tends to replace."
- Maitani
"Reading a hard book, we must remember, is an experience that returns many rewards not generated by a pithy blog post (ahem) or online magazine."
- Maitani
I think I would have got more out of this article if it were longer and more complex.
- Todd Hoff
Agreed, there is not much to learn here. I posted it mostly as a reminder for myself. :-)
- Maitani