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svarayesterday at 12:04 PM1 replyview on HN

> We're reading more words than ever, but instead of coming from books, they're coming from digital media. We're losing that same muscle for long-form reading and deep focus (...)

Yes, true, but that's also very much a thing you can do something about by, well: reading books.

It's a technique we must preserve for the good of our culture, but, also, in a society full of people who have forgotten how to, an individual superpower.


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YinglingHeavyyesterday at 1:28 PM

That offers no solution to the masses, only the individual. The former its a much more difficult and demanding discussion.

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