One thing that has been on my mind a lot over the last year amid the pandemic is the perceived importance of books. How meaningful, instructive and helpful a book is or is not has not changed, but my perception of how meaningful, instructive and helpful a book is has changed. Maybe I have more awareness of how much information is produced online on a daily basis, but I feel the gap between how I view books and articles growing.
Again, the articles I read could be 10x better than the books I read, but that doesn’t affect the ways in which that gap has grown for me. This has myriad effects on how I both consume and produce, and I’m convinced it’s 100 percent tied to the pandemic for reasons I’m not entirely sure I can explain.