Tabs are a blight on human concentration.

Truly. But I feel like I'll die if I close one of my 15+ plus tabs (and yes I have the OneTab extension but it doesn't help)

My first ten tabs feel like they should be carbon dated.

What about some "most likely to.." type categories? Such as "Most likely to have a femdom fetish" or "Most likely to be able to actually function normally & blend in at a party amongst normal people" and "Most likely to be a bad tipper"

Orr, alternately, categories like "Member you'd most like to duel to the death on a frozen lake" or "Member(s) you'd be able to tolerate being stuck on a very long road trip with" and so on.

That would be me :cool:

Excellent. Compile a list if you feel like it, anyway I'll add some of these categories (no idea how to do that conveniently but I'll manage)
I'm an accidental bad tipper because I'm too unaware of social etiquette to know how tipping really works. There are so many different systems and it just gets complicated and drives me into anxious despair

This is it. Our brains are changing to need more, faster, immediate stimulation to process and retain information. With a printed book, not only do our eyes have a harder time adjusting to the lighting and font size of the text, but if there's a word we don't know we can't just pop open a new tab to check the definition, or look up a historical or cultural event that the author has referenced to gain more context or understand the joke. But it would be ridiculous to drop your book and grab a dictionary or encyclopedia every time to figure it out, and as a result that time spent reading feels wasted and unproductive.

You can train yourself to keep the skill active, but it's totally a if-you-don't-use-it situation.

Book recommendation: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

Ezra Klein mentioned that one on his podcast today.

It’s his final episode btw

Ha. Good luck at the failing NYT, Klein.

He’s painfully neoliberal but he’s a sincere dude.

I think maybe he sold the rights to his brand or something with that podcast because it doesn’t quite make sense giving it up to write editorials

Seems you could do both