A Reader’s Guide to Doing Nothing
Reading looks like doing nothing, which is its oldest defense and its best disguise. In praise of the visible book and the invisible work.
Tag: attention
Against Summary
The machines will summarize anything now, instantly and adequately. Which is exactly why the summary is the wrong thing to want.
The Afternoon I Stopped Multitasking
It took a power outage to show me what a single task feels like. Notes on the afternoon the router died and the mind came back.
Walking as Punctuation
A sentence needs commas and a day needs walks. On the ambulatory semicolon: the walk that joins two unrelated thoughts and makes them a paragraph.
On Reading Slowly
Speed was never the point. A defense of the fifteen-page evening, the paragraph read twice, and the book that takes a season.
Against the Infinite Scroll
The feed has no last page, and that is the whole design. On endings as a form of respect, and why I want my reading to run out.