Re:Can we escape from information overload?
by _Microft on Saturday May 09, 2020 @01:54PM
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I read the article and it has nothing to do with too many books being written or basically any of the other comments here.
It is a very interesting story about a man spending increasingly more time in darkness, the experiences he has there, his return into the real world and how it influenced his work and how he is now helping others to have similiar experiences.
PS: reloading the page in Firefox' reader mode showed it in full to me. Go to reader mode and then reload if you only see part of the article.
Now, obviously you don't just want to read "Cliff's Notes" versions of everything - that leads to shallow thinking. However, many of the nonfiction books that I've read can have 80% of their value summarized in far less than 20% of the number of words that they use, and a wise person would judge whether or not a book deserved this treatment before applying it.