Tangent: Is this really a 3 minute read for others? I could no way read this in 3 minutes and grasp it all. I would need at least 6-8 minutes. Am I doing something wrong?
I read it in about 1 minute. But that doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong necessarily! I have ADHD—which for me has a weird side benefit of recognizing information patterns I won’t find helpful and treating them as fields of grass rather than blades—and my brain filtered a lot of it out as “reductionist bullshit I hear incessantly”, so I mostly skimmed after I got the bent of the article.
This is not a judgment on you, or what you did, but I don't know if I'd define that as "reading." I did essentially the same thing you did, but I have always called it "skimming." With articles like this, I tend to skim first, to see if it's worth a deeper reading. to answer your parent comment, I could not have deeply read this post in only 3 mins. It likely would have taken 5 or more.