[ak39]

Here's what I have discovered recently about the way I read & pay attention after habitual use of Reddit/HN:

I have "trained my brain" to scan headlines very quickly to see if they are relevant or of interest to me. Consequently, I have developed a troubling trait of reading most things only to "cognitively dump" immediately thereafter. I now find that I cannot hold concentration to read larger tracts of writing. Or that I will read something but fail to recall only moments later.