My tolerance for reading dense paragraphs has dramatically reduced over the last decade.
Such observations, which I suspect I’m not alone in making, are frequently met with concerns that technology has ruined our attention spans, and therefore our ability to parse information and achieve a certain intellectual depth.
I’m sure this is at least partially true, but what if there’s a flip side?
Lower attention spans, driven by whatever reasons, mean we have a smaller window to transmit information.
This means we need to have crisper and clearer sentences. And we’re encouraged to think about what really needs to be said, and challenged to think about how to say it as efficiently as possible.
Short of needing to produce something like a PhD thesis, this sounds like a worthy aspiration to me.