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The book “The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains” [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book)] by Nicholas G Carr discusses this as well. Essentially, the content we consume is just one part of the picture if you think about how our minds are shaped, the medium we consume that content through also shapes how we think.

Many of us don’t read left-to-right top-to-bottom anymore, we skim over blog posts and articles looking for keywords and then read the paragraphs or sentences around those keywords.



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