12.10.2025
Arguing with strangers, brain rot, and phone productivity
People are reading more than ever—words, not books—text messages, social media captions, arguments in the comments.
Most of us probably know this already, if only intuitively. But know it or not, if you’re like us, “phone productivity” is high.
This very smart New Yorker article by Jay Caspian Kang explores more than just the ills of phone addiction and benefits of book-reading, though, and it’s worth a read if you’ve got a few minutes.
Here’s a sample:
The experience of reading can benefit from the rockier mental terrain that books provide; the boredom and impatience that longer texts sometimes inspire can help push and prod one’s thinking more than things that are perfectly distilled.
- 12.10.2025 - December 10, 2025
* This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are producs of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
