I feel bad about reading Wikipedia summaries of vast histories, quick glosses of big fat books, plot summaries of novels, etc. But increasingly I find it’s the only way to get anything done. Full read=luxury
I’d pay for a custom summaries service with my priorities in mind
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One of my better professors, now deceased, told me he only had time to read abstracts and reviews to keep up in his field. This was 1988.
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Within well-formed disciplines that’s actually enough I think since you tend to develop really good triage and thin-slicing instincts and have high situation awareness.
Doesn’t work if you’re working in extra-academic mode (which is even worse than mere interdisciplinarity)
I summarise Tweets mechanically ( meme-machines.com ). Getting what folk are talking about is sort of doable, that's nouns etc.., but what they are saying is tough ( verbs and time ). As for user tracking, bias, prejudice, and plain humanity put that beyond my pay grade..


