In practice, now with ~5 substantive texts written in the medium, it's pretty consistent that ~2-5% of readers engage with the prompts; 25-50% answer ~all (very length dependent); around half of those do any reviews.
What are the implications for authors and their incentives?
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I'm sure you've considered this, but what about having prompts unlock the next section of the text?
I found I had to try hard to stop myself from reading on, especially when in flow and curious about what's next
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Yes, Execute Program does this, and I think it's interesting. I fear it would produce a shallow increase in prompt engagement (probably with low retention in subsequent review sessions) in exchange for annoying people and preventing them from skimming (a useful reading strategy!)
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right. two other ideas that come to mind:
letting users skim prompts instead of text to see what they want to learn/remember
highlighting sections of the text that form the answers to future prompts
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