I remember the days before the internet when I would see an article -- usually several pages long -- that I wanted to read in a magazine. So I would stick a paper chip on the first page and put the magazine on my nightstand. I would read for several hours a night before going to sleep. Lining up my night's reading was one of the things I did in the day.

That habit died when I entered the online world, but I remember it fondly. Articles on the internet are 200 - 400 words long. Newspapers (remember those?) used to call things that length "fillers" -- back in the day.

I don't know how you reasonably discuss serious ideas, or teach or learn anything of value in something that short -- except in these quick "sound-bite" bursts of targeted information. No wonder there's so much shallow thinking, so much outright ignorance, so much hostility -- and so little patience. We program it into the very structure of how we receive information. Not an improvement IYAM.

TLDR is an actual thing now -- and I'm already way past the limit. I could write several more paragraphs without pausing for breath. But my time is up ... and it's entirely possible your attention fizzled out already -- a while ago.

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