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Habits are formed over time. I began reading "books" again in 2010, after a 10 year lapse of mostly not reading books. At first, the best I could do was 15 bo
by officemonkey 9y ago
Habits are formed over time.
I began reading "books" again in 2010, after a 10 year lapse of mostly not reading books.
At first, the best I could do was 15 books a year. It took me three years before I "leveled up" to "80 books a year."
Technology isn't the enemy here. Attention span is.
- randomsearch 9y agoBut what if technology has deliberately attempted to undermine your discipline?
- officemonkey 9y agoTechnology isn't the issue. Technology gave me an ereader that lasts for a week on a single charge and lets me carry around a couple hundred books. It's a large part of the reason why I'm reading 80 books a year. How creators and consumers of applications, websites, and content USE technology is the problem. Many consumers spend zero time thinking about the outcome of their technology use. Too many creators spend all their time thinking about only ONE outcome of their technology use. When someone identifies a problem, it's easy to blame "technology" and not the market and social pressures that created it. If people have "forgotten to read" it's their fault, not Instagram's.