Reading Less, Thinking More: A Modest Defence of Slow Reading

Information is no longer scarce. Attention is. The temptation to skim everything once is enormous — and almost always wrong.

Pick two pieces a week. A long article, a chapter of a book, an essay you keep seeing referenced. Read them slowly. Underline. Argue back in the margin. Come back to them three days later and write a paragraph about what changed in your thinking.

You will know fewer headlines than your peers. You will be measurably better at your job. That's a trade I'd take any week.