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Needed to rant a little after one too many people asked me this recently about my book reading habit. 

I mean, maybe they should consider watching AI summaries of their TikTok Feed...

Writer | Book lover | Hobby Classical Guitarist | Marketing /subsquid | /classical music nerd and /postcards lady

Loved this - and yes - the "difficulty is a feature not a bug" resonates.  I suspect we're in one of those pendulum shifts where AI grokkable constructs are delivering an advantage for people in some kind of "social" way - but it's a dangerous move.  It's been my experience that the world is getting more complex, not less - core ideas remain the same but the level of complexity that technology has created around them makes them harder to work with. If we're training ourselves to only understand distillable ideas we're going to lose out to people who understand the nuance of more complex ideas.  All that to say - thanks for the rant - the writing and that Schubert's D.956 has the same effect on me as the Brahms!

Have realized that I have no idea what I’m doing - again!
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Aaah a fellow Schubert enjoyer. 

I'm big fan of his uncompleted symphony, and some of his Liederzyklen.