You have to believe there's something to get out of it to listen carefully.

· Bits and Bobs 9/28/26
  • You have to believe there's something to get out of it to listen carefully.
    • If you think it's shallow your experience will be shallow.
    • You have to be entrained into the content to experience the insight.
      • Dealt in.
    • If you look at your phone while the movie is playing you might miss the key insights from the framing or subtle behaviors of the characters.
    • Giving your undivided attention to a work allows you to extract insights at a deeper layer.
      • The only time we do that nowadays is on a plane or at a movie theater.
      • Both places where you don't have a phone and its infinite feed to distract you.
    • I like 'em thick: an excellent blog post on the value of deep works.
    • When we lose the capacity to absorb long-form content, we make it harder to do multi-ply thinking.