Re:Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters
by inimino on Sunday February 10, 2019 @12:10PM
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What are the odds that all information worth consuming is best consumed at the same speed?
What are the odds that every human cultural experience can be reduced to "consumption" of N bits of information per minute?
I say you will benefit more from eating your dinner and relaxing into the churning sounds of the washing machine than you will from another day of your hyperoptimized speed run through life, measured in bits of information per minute absorbed (like a sponge) from 'content' (a term invented by industries that profit by the mindless consumption of your time by their 'content').
What are the odds that every human cultural experience can be reduced to "consumption" of N bits of information per minute?
I say you will benefit more from eating your dinner and relaxing into the churning sounds of the washing machine than you will from another day of your hyperoptimized speed run through life, measured in bits of information per minute absorbed (like a sponge) from 'content' (a term invented by industries that profit by the mindless consumption of your time by their 'content').