Oddbean new post about login | logout People don't click. People don't read. People love to scroll & stroll.
And people love cats😻
And people love sats 😻
And cut n paste!!
I read it. Cheers :)
Most people don't read anything with long passages, online or offline. Only about a 1/3 read something of any literary value. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/93659-nea-finds-worrying-drop-in-reading-participation.html
1/3 is a lot!
Interestingly, younger people are more-likely to have read, but those who read, were less-likely to read something literary.
That makes sense. I read much more when I was younger. Now reading requires me getting up and finding my reading glasses so there's more friction.
Very right, unfortunately. Quick dopamine to feel okay ... then next, then next. Not at rest enough to concentrate on a few targeted things, not even on possible solutions to their hardship situation. It requires clarity of mind and a certain ease of being to just sit and read. In my experience, in our state of information overflow and daily fiat life struggle, at first exercises (meditation, breathwork, yoga) and/or spending extended periods of time in nature having nothing planned to do, will bring about that state of clarity and ease. Once experienced and rekindled, it will be easier, yes even necessary, to come back to that state. Then the mind is open enough to listen, to receive the new, to focus.
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I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
Same.
I do read extensively, but I find it hard to radically switch gears from short form to long form. For instance, when I am scrolling through Nostr, and come across a link to a longer text, I will often just open it in a tab and go back to scrolling. Later, when I am in a different mental mode (looking for depth rather than breadth), I go through my open tabs and read them. Of course I don't read all of them in full, depends on how engaged I am after a few minutes of reading. In my mind, Nostr is mainly a scrolling medium, not a reading medium. Even though it can be both, e.g. with Habla. I just don't think the two mix well, there is something like a natural frequency for a feed.
What I don't like are long short-form notes. That breaks the flow and is an oxymoron. I'd like a client that hid everything that was longer than 210 characters.
I see including a "ping" about a new long-form note in the normal feed as a sort of notification, for things-to-read-later.
Exactly
That's what "read it later" apps/systems are for. Pocket, Readwise, etc. Highlighter would be the nostr variant of it (wip & different scope now).
I don't use read it later apps, I just have a browser plugin that limits the number of tabs I can open. That way I have a sort of "kanban board" of pieces to read.
Many approaches work. I'd encourage anyone who doesn't have a "content consumption" system/workflow to look into existing tools and how other people use them. Zettelkasten, knowledge graphs, read it later, etc. It's a skill, it can be learned, and it is very powerful.
Do you use Zettelkasten/knowledge graphs? I tried Obsidian but somehow got bored of it before it bore me any fruit. I do use Zotero though
Logseq is good
I had tried the Logseq sandbox, and didn't like the fact that everything was a bullet list. Good that it's open source though
Just strolling by
Who told you? At times I click
this is absolutely correct, which is why growth on nostr is an uphill battle, because we're trying to recruit the masses which are so used to not having to do work. they're so used to being spoon fed. we must show them there's a better alternative.
Stroll or troll?
