I read because it is a compulsive addiction. The only two "filters" I use: refusing to read anything that comes to me via an algorithmic recommendation engine, ala Amazon, Facebook, etc.; and second, listening to my "inner critic" that tells me pretty quickly that something is not worth finishing. The post you included had several trigger words/phrases in the first paragraph that suggested it was not worth finishing.
Alan Kay once said, "if you do not read for pleasure you cannot read for purpose." I have always thought there should be a corollary, if you are forced to read for purpose, you cannot read for pleasure. That seems to be what you are experiencing. davew On Mon, Apr 7, 2025, at 9:28 AM, glen wrote: > https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/04/reputation-why-do-we-care-so-much-about-what-other-people-think-of-us/ > > Not as toxic as Jordan Peterson, but still insidious. I regret reading > it. I'll never get that time back. So why post it here and bait some > other poor soul into wasting their time as well? I think because I > don't have my own defense. I keep getting suckered into this stuff. > Why? What practical things do you do to prevent yourself from reading > trash like this? I can't help but wonder what those of you who enjoy > *chatting* with LLMs (chatting is very different from something like > declarative programming) might opine. > > Also, I used to enjoy the mere act of reading. I literally did not care > what the words meant. I enjoyed reading an article in the journal > Ethics just as much as, say, a long novel by Michael Moorcock. But once > I started having to read as part of my job, it grew less and less fun. > Now I don't enjoy reading at all, despite doing it all day every day. > But my decision support system for choosing *what* to read is very > broken. > > -- > glen > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. > / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
