I am partial to articles with multiple links and the experience of navigating an endless web of references. As interesting and illuminating as it might seem while I am reading, the experience of jumping from one article to the next, linked or connected by references or concepts, somehow ends up feeling dizzying, confusing and quite exhausting in retrospect. I often feel like I have been tangled up in an information mess I cannot even process. I have been repressing myself from engaging in that kind of impulse-navigation lately, and have been trying to center my attention on one idea at a time: assimilate, digest, come back for more. It's what I call information assimilation hygiene. 😎
Thanks for the feedback! Do you think links at the end would work better than embedded links? This is what Heather Cox Richardson does in Letters from an American...
I am partial to articles with multiple links and the experience of navigating an endless web of references. As interesting and illuminating as it might seem while I am reading, the experience of jumping from one article to the next, linked or connected by references or concepts, somehow ends up feeling dizzying, confusing and quite exhausting in retrospect. I often feel like I have been tangled up in an information mess I cannot even process. I have been repressing myself from engaging in that kind of impulse-navigation lately, and have been trying to center my attention on one idea at a time: assimilate, digest, come back for more. It's what I call information assimilation hygiene. 😎
Thanks for the feedback! Do you think links at the end would work better than embedded links? This is what Heather Cox Richardson does in Letters from an American...
Yes! Definitely! Takes que impulse-navigation anxiety away :)
You convinced me! I've got the next three posts already written, so watch out for the new style on 27th April...