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Pocket. Never actually “read” anything later. But the dopamine hit of saving something with the click of a button to maybe find it later or tag. Yes there are solid alternatives, but Pocket had something sentimental about it.

And what if you can’t “picture” in your “mind’s eye” i.e. aphantasia?

You can set Safari to automatically open all web pages in Reader mode. Then for websites you regularly visit and want a non reader mode render, you can whitelist them for that.

Reminds me of the way the way the author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" takes care of his leather gloves and they stay with him on the order of decades.

More people need to read this / think this point through. In a post Excel world, could any accountant get a job not knowing Excel? No matter how good they were "on paper". Choice becomes a self aggrandizing illusion, reality eventually asserts itself.

With attention spans shrinking, publishers who prioritize quantity over quality get clicks, which generates ad revenue, which keeps their lights on while their competitors doing quality in depth, nuanced writing go out of business.

It feels like a game of chess closing in on you no matter how much you physically want to fight your way out and flip the board over.

"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about." - Agent Smith

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Dune

This is cool. Could it support mosh like stable ssh connections on spotty, moving internet to prevent reconnecting hassle? https://mosh.org/