Information Bombs: the danger of reading everything online
Switching from reading blog posts to reading books (digital and physical ones) substantially improved my mental health since sometimes blog posts abstract to thousands of hours of information in small (of what I call) information bombs that make us believe we learn when in reality it’s just filling the gaps with noise or craters, these bombs I mentioned have the logical structure as follows:
These logical (but not harmful) structures assume every reader has a level of knowledge in the same range as their target audience, not even disclosing to the audience in the first place what they are trying to achieve while trying to be as broad as possible. For example, trying to bring down-to-earth complex topics that are just that, complex topics that, in the end, the simple explanation ends up being as complex to understand as the original one.
The Feynman way of learning is entirely antagonistic to this way of learning; articles are just pills of information trying to be as quick as possible for the reader to read and move on.
