bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 on Nostr: Part of our global dumbing down is the assumption no one wants to read anything ...
Part of our global dumbing down is the assumption no one wants to read anything anymore. This leads to ever briefer articles. Which sucks, since the world is too complicated to be understood through soundbites alone. However, if you invest time in decent writing & do the measurements, you find that tens of thousands of people DO read 3200 word posts straight through to the end:
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