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Traditional texts - essays, books - have an implied linear model of time (a sequence of words), but otherwise usually do little to influence a reader's temporal experience of the material.
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By contrast, in say a dance practice or yoga practice, there may be a great deal of temporal structure, extending over months, years, or even decades: repetition, controlled spacing, stopping points, an upward spiral in which basic forms are returned to over and over, and so on.
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This essay poses the question of how we can extend traditional text forms to help structure a reader's temporal experience in ways that better serve their goals.
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This is not a short question! For me, it parses out close to "how do you think & live?" 😃 One useful pattern: convene a class to teach the material. This is _extremely_ time-intensive - it's easy to spend hundreds of hours to "read" 3-5 papers well this way. But worth it!
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I'll certainly ditto Michael's point about this question being all-consuming!
But for me, clichéd builder that I am, one important approach I use to bathe in ideas is to instantiate them in a system!