I am torn between wanting to read something which seems genuinely interesting and not wanting to waste time on a crackpot wall of text. Whenever content relate

I am torn between wanting to read something which seems genuinely interesting and not wanting to waste time on a crackpot wall of text. Whenever content related to Wolfram comes up there are mixed opinions about his genius - I wonder how much more impactful he could have been if he had a smooth-talking PR person filtering and shaping his output into a more digestible form.