Skip to content

Search imloka

No results for “{{query}}”

Try:

  • using fewer words
  • a broader topic
  • checking the spelling

Related topics

Some results are missing. Stories loaded, but topics and authors did not answer. What is shown below is complete for stories.

Search is temporarily unavailable

You can still browse by topic, format, or place while we sort this out.

Explore all coverage

Business International Essay

The Argument for Reading Slowly

Nobody has ever finished a book by skimming it.

Tall library shelves receding down a corridor, lit by hanging bulbs.
Demo image · Unsplash

Reading quickly is a genuine skill and I do not want to argue against it. Most of what arrives in front of us deserves to be read quickly, or not at all.

The exception

Some writing is constructed so that the second half depends on the first in a way that skimming destroys. You can extract the argument, but the argument was not the point; the sequence was.

There is no way to tell which kind you are holding until you have slowed down enough to find out.

End of article

Coverage Business International Essay

About the author

Tushar

Contributing Editor, Culture

Writes about craft, printing, and the economics of making things by hand.

Continue exploring

Discussion 6 comments

Shobha Rangappa Pinned 3 hours ago

Nineteen public consultations and counting. The treatment-plant utilisation number is the one nobody publishes, and it is the only one that would tell you whether any of this works.

Tushar Author 2 hours ago

They published it at 4:15pm. I've added it to the piece as an update rather than a correction, since nothing in the original was wrong; it was simply unanswered.

Vasanthi Kumar 5 hours ago

The cascade point deserves more attention than it usually gets. Restoring a lake in isolation is a real improvement to that lake and almost nothing to the system.

Comment removed

A. Menon 6 hours ago

Even so, the diversion drains are doing something; they buy time while the plants get built.

Stay in the loop

The week's best reading from imloka, in one email. No noise.

Sign in to continue

This action needs an account.

imloka uses a federated or passwordless sign-in. Creating a password is not required.