Cal Newport

A lot of this is captured in, the best book on this would be The Shallows, Nick Carr's book, The Shallows.

When we're reading something like a webpage or Substack, for whatever reason, we skim much more aggressively.

That's the main issue.

We jump around much more aggressively just trying to pull out the key points.

I think that's all just acculturated, right?

Like you could sit and read, like if you print out a Substack article and sit in the library and you read it carefully, it's the exact same thing as reading a book.

It's the exact same thing in the sense of the experience.

On screens, we tend to skim around more.

The other advantage of like a book that was actually published versus like a post you see online, it's just better thought through, right?

So when you write a book, you spend a couple of years on it.

Like you're really, you spend a couple of years crafting the book and you might've been based on a lifetime of thinking about this topic.

And so you take your time when writing a book and it gets edited and re-edited and you go back.

Like I'm writing a book now.

I've been working on it off and on for like three or four years.

I've rewritten this book like three times.

It's like, this isn't right.

This isn't clear enough.

It's, you know, and so when you go through text that has been that carefully thought through and structured, that's also, you just get a different experience because the pieces click together at different scales and it just uses the, you build in your brain, these intricate interlocking pieces that all hook together and is beautiful.

And you get that aha moment feeling there's an actual physical endorphin rough you get in your brain.

So, you know, I think reading,