How I Almost “Passively” Read 10,000+ Pages Every Year

There’s a silent world war underway. It’s Tweets + news + TikToks + endless emails + IG thirst traps + clickbaity newsletters — versus — our attention. <a href="https://www.deseret.com/2023/1/25/23569188/attention-span-is-shrinking" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">From 2.5 minutes</a> 20 years ago to 75 seconds in 2012 to a measly 47 seconds in 2021, our attention spans are dropping. To keep up, creators and companies “optimize” their content with juicier hooks, flashier cuts, and sexier thumbnails. Chopping long-form content up, they spray it all over the internet — Podcast snippets as Shorts. Books as summaries. Blog excerpts as Tweets. Tweet screenshots as Li posts. As a result, our attention spans shrink even more — triggering further content optimization — the vicious loop feeds itself. <img alt="A visual showing the attention contraction loop" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*bM2-w_nfwU_6CXdXbgKfbA.jpeg" style="height:315px; width:700px" /> Made with <a href="https://yvisuals.app/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">yvisuals.app</a> This is turning our knowledge into whipped cream without a solid cake base — vague (often-inaccurate) facts without deep understanding. In our increasingly shallow world, cultivating deep knowledge is an unfair advantage — and reading good old books is the best long-term way to achieve this. <a href="https://baos.pub/how-i-almost-passively-read-10-000-pages-every-year-8509bf9ffd78">Website</a>