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Ep. 238: The Joys of the Reading Life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
How Do Different Mediums Affect Reading Processes?
The medium of print advantages slower, more attention and time requiring processes. The digital medium, by contrast, advantages, fast processes and multitasking. Both well suited for skimming information's daily bombardments. To skim to inform as we do when we read on digital is the new norm for reading. What goes missing are deep reading processes which require a quality of attention increasingly at risk in a culture where constant distraction bifurcates focus.
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