Alan Dalton
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“Many more people regret taking too long to make a decision than making a decision too quickly. […] people regret the time they have lost deciding so much more than the occasional decision they made too hastily.” —Nell McShane Wulfhart text.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-…
“Audiobooks, screen readers, text-to-voice applications – anything can now be turned into robotic but perfectly intelligible audio within seconds. Admittedly, the experience of ‘reading’ in this way is different. […] But it’s still reading, of a kind.” —Hugh Linehan
“You can have AI [write] for you […] In preindustrial times most people's jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. […] It will be the same with writing. There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.” —Paul Graham
“[Collecting] articles […] generates a huge backlog to slog through – so that even if you do get around to reading or watching, you’re no longer responding from […] excitement […] but from a duller sense of obligation […].” —Oliver Burkeman ckarchive.com/b/r8u8hoh3qpe9…
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