Cal Newport

And your understanding of things, the complexity of what you can understand when you have this new rewired brain, that also really goes up.

So reading is like, it's not just, oh, I get stronger in my brain.

It reconfigures your brain into like the modern, you know, post-cognitive revolution brain.

Well, there's two different things going on here.

There's medium and content type.

Like, so if you're reading a book in a physical book or you're reading in a Kindle, um,

doesn't matter, right?

I mean, they're both actual physical medium.

Like the way that the Kindle is actually a physical experience.

It's actual little disks that are, you know, dark on one side and light on the other.

And to make a page, they have little electrical impulses and you shock the disk you want to turn and you don't shock the ones you don't want to turn.

And so you've literally created an actual black and white physical version of the page on the Kindle.

You're not, unlike a computer screen or a TV where it's light being emitted, there's no light being emitted.

It's physically, that's the page.

It just created a new physical page that has text on it.

That's why you have to actually have a light on a Kindle to read it.

So it's just a page that reconfigures itself into a new page.

I love eating technology.

I think it's really cool.

Content type, the issue is, I mean, there's a lot of this research we've known since the 90s.