{"id":5422,"date":"2026-09-15T02:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:51:58","slug":"reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2026\/09\/reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the middle of this wonderful book called Two Wheels Good. The History and Mystery of the Bicycle<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

And it hit me. Reading is like a conversation with myself. The author goes somewhere, I follow, stop them, create my own reasoning, let them keep going. Try to predict where it\u2019s going. Etc.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if we were trading the wheel on the freeway. I take the wheel because a paragraph reminisces me of something lived a while ago. A similar situation, maybe or something related. Then I wander a bit around it, trying to see multiple perspectives. Working up my memory and imagination. And then I go back to the block of text and its muse, the author. Who takes back the wheel and I just look around, observing.<\/p>\n

There is none of that with video and audio. <\/p>\n

You become a complete prisoner. If you voice yourself, you can\u2019t. It will be weak, under breath. You never really use your intellect when you\u2019re listening to someone or watching their live feed.<\/p>\n

This is why reading is so fundamental. It is the best tool for intelligence, period. It is a gym for the brain.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t work with a conversation with someone or multiple people, for people are biased and have agendas. When you read, it\u2019s just you and the author. That\u2019s a clean state to build up from because there\u2019s only your bias and the author\u2019s to deal with. No third layer that fucks it all up.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s truly a hivemind culture born from social media\/phones\/podcasts use, no reading whatsoever, and it\u2019s not helping our world.<\/p>\n

Recently I really have been feeling the sedating effect of all-day videos that people are going through. People read less. Despite more access to knowledge than ever, people question less than ever.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the middle of this wonderful book called Two Wheels Good. The History and Mystery of the Bicycle. And it hit me. Reading is like a conversation with myself. The author goes somewhere, I follow, stop them, create my own reasoning, let them keep going. Try to predict where it\u2019s going. Etc. It\u2019s as if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}