Short form vs long form

Again about the previous post: I think short form content has been unfairly demonised and long form overly romanticised A better way to think about this is: Long form helps you think / find out what you’re trying to say. Short form helps you get the points across. (This frame applies to both reading &…

text is a temporary lossy workaround

as an extremely text-biased person with an unjustifiable fetish of long-form text, it pains me to have to start to accept that text (hence writing and reading) is not the most effective method for information transfer. text might be the most efficient (storage and transmission wise) and relatively convenient (skimmable, indexable, tangible), but I am…

our phones didn’t destroy our attention span

perhaps this “social media and smartphones have ruined our attention span” issue is really just FOMO on steroid and less an actual neurological change? do you actually have bad attention span or you are just tired, in a rush, and constantly in FOMO? so a combination of 1) a lack of mental bandwidth, 2) a…

A vegan thinks “I’m killing it”.

A hardcore vegan friend recently said that she thinks “I killed it” in a webinar I gave. Of course I’m overanalysing this, but can’t help but find it funny. English: macho language of violence and domination This reminds me of something author Ocean Vuong observed. “Knock ‘em dead, big guy. Go in there / guns…

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