The Need to Read
It's interesting that the article's thesis is about reading, but most of the article is actually about writing. And I think that's an understated point. I myself wrote a blog piece about "Blogging as Structured Thinking" earlier this year.I think that actually plenty of people do reading in various forms of content. The real challenge is getting people to do more writing.If you want to be a thinker, you have to write.It really forces you to address your ideas more formulaically and concretizes your theses.Start a blog! If you're reading this chances are you know how to buy a domain and spin up a blog in less than 30 minutes. Try Wordpress, or hugo with templates if you want more control. And if you don't know what to write about, this link was recently shared on HN, I thought it was pretty useful: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/And yes, it's important to publish it. It makes your thoughts real. And ideas were meant to be shared.