> What has become exceedingly scarce (and therefore, valuable) is the physical, emotional, attentional, and mental capability to sit quietly and direct focused attention for sustained periods of time.

Reminds me a lot of the book Deep Focus by Cal Newport which covers this topic in depth. Great book that forced me to take another look at many bad habits and renewed my sense of focus.

I kept expecting the author to recommend this book, but then he never did...

Zotero fills this need for me very well. A two-stage reading cycle of harvesting/tagging/saving followed by a later slow reading. https://www.zotero.org/

Interesting post, thanks for sharing.

I always wondered if something like a /dev/null where you dump content you want to read/learn and let that app resurface that content when the time is right.