That's not an effect of programming, per se. I've been at it for ~30 years now, and I notice the same effect - iff I spend too much time reading short-form con

That's not an effect of programming, per se. I've been at it for ~30 years now, and I notice the same effect - iff I spend too much time reading short-form content. Being able to deal with long-form content requires practicing interaction with long-form content. As it turns out (lately), I more and more often deliberately turn off network connectivity, having pulled major references I need offline. For exactly that reason - the scanning through garbage is disruptive to my ability to focus. Otherwise, I seem to have survived programming fine ;)