Certainly some of this is a question of degree (eg. motivation to read a blog post versus a longer, more comprehensive book), but the gap between reading and pr

Certainly some of this is a question of degree (eg. motivation to read a blog post versus a longer, more comprehensive book), but the gap between reading and practicing is real and very important. Just as the OA is referring to practitioners who are too lazy to pick up a book, you also have people who go the opposite way and spend all their energy reading and theorizing without putting anything into practice.