A couple things I got out of it: > ...at a time when anything that takes more than a few minutes to skim is called a “longread” Very true with the and the adv

A couple things I got out of it: > ...at a time when anything that takes more than a few minutes to skim is called a “longread” Very true with the and the advent of buzzfeed style lists. > "[A theses is] about committing oneself to a task that seems big and impossible." Kind of along the same lines as the short attention span comment above, but it does seem tough to organize your thoughts and produce a non-trivial document. Or in the case of a lot of people here, the seemingly big and impossible task of starting a company.