The Anti-Algorithm: A Manifesto for Slow Reading

There is a growing counter-current in how people read. It is small, but it is measurable. Long-form subscriptions are up. Newsletters average longer word counts than they did two years ago. Book sales, quietly, are holding.

Call it the anti-algorithm — the willful choice to spend thirty minutes with a single piece of writing when the phone in your pocket could serve you a thousand snippets in the same time.

Slow reading is not nostalgia. It is discipline. It is remembering that some ideas do not fit in seven seconds.