Twitter Made Me a Worse Reader But a Better Writer

🧶 Tags:: #literature_Notes
🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

We have two contradictory pieces of training: one is our attention span has gone through the floor because we're hit with so much information all the time. We want to skip, summarize, and cut to the chase. Twitter has made me a worse reader but a much better writer.

On the other hand, we're also taught from a young age to finish your books. Over time, we forget how to read books. Everyone I know is stuck on some book.

For me, giving up reading was a tragedy. I grew up on books, then I switched to blogs, then I switched to Twitter and Facebook, and I realized I wasn't actually learning anything. I was just taking little dopamine snacks all day long.

You know that song you can't get out of your head? All thoughts work that way. Careful what you read.

When solving problems: the older the problem, the older the solution.