Tag: Slow Reading

  • Why Kids Can’t Read

    I have no patience for podcasts. I leave it to my wife to decide what gets listened to on long road trips (or, in the winter, when a 1,000 piece puzzle is littered all over the dining table). During our drive back from Savannah, where we spent the week of Thanksgiving and adopted our darling…

  • The Age of Information, The Aging of Information.

    The Age of Information, The Aging of Information.

    Some thoughts on James Gleick’s The Information. “The alphabet is like a contagion – both the virus and the vector of transmission in and of itself.” Back in the “learn to code” days – a phrase shot off in mean spirit by anti-intellectuals to journalists and academics who were loosing their jobs by the thousands…

  • I Forgot How To Read

    Teaching someone how to read is akin to teaching someone how to write – after a certain point, there’s nothing else to teach.