How have your reading habits shifted in the last 5 years due to the weirding (if they have)?
Eg: me: 50-75% reduction in tech news, 3x more politics news (paid ~zero attention to politics during 2nd Obama term), almost no nonfiction books, huge Terry Pratchett binge (~30 so far)
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Also sharp fall in reading longform essays (the kind I myself used to write way more)
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I read less political news than before, from maybe 5% of reading to 0%.
Maybe 30% blogs 70% nonfiction books. No fiction.
There has to be some personality type mediating these answers or something as they are clearly all over the place...
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I think it's traits (especially need for control, both inbound and outbound) interacting with life circumstances. Age, life stage, parenthood, financial security/precarity, geographic location.
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I’ve been on a two year hard core sci-fi binge. It’s the only reading I do on kindle
I listen to nonfiction audiobooks and sports/politics podcasts.
Almost no long form article reading. I need to save these and then have google read them to me while I drive in lieu of podcasts
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- no news
- 90% reduction twitter feed
- 100x increase in replies
- more nonfiction (mostly biographies), less fiction
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For the first two years of the “weirding” I dramatically upticked my daily news as I thought I was being a responsible citizen staying informed. Didn’t last.
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