Reading As an Act of Resistance (Notes on Harvard’s Hum 10)

In our current age of smartphones and AI, have college students basically given up on trying to read full books or write on their own?. It was called The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of it's, like, reward, including: Well, the answer depends on who you ask.

1. 01Let me read you the introductory paragraph of that piece from 2024
2. 02We all felt like we were building something, and that was a remarkable feeling
3. 03Now my name for this broader phenomenon is reward shortcutting And I think reward shortcutting the right way to think about it is a consumer acquisition strategy by big tech If we