we deserve books that we can zoom in/out of (like google maps) the "zoomed out" text should be clearly different from the author's original words (I don't want to "read" LLM prose, I'm just using it to navigate through the semantic content) https://t.co/v7Adz1k25w

In other words, you have a long recounting of experiences that are not your own. And in order for these experiences to make sense for the everyday student, they need to be compressed into a digestible format. A great textbook plays the game of simplification, not complexity. The more these experiences can be communicated as stories, the greater the... See more

The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of claiming it