The Meditation of Reading

Move | See | Reflect

This edition is about the kind of content we consume—and why depth matters more than brevity.

🟢 MOVE

We’re reading more than ever, yet retaining less. Most content today is engineered for speed: quick SEO pieces, push notifications, bite-sized summaries. Apps like InShots or Flipboard let you skim headlines and feel “informed” without ever slowing down. Even when we read, we’re distracted—scrolling the way we do on Instagram or YouTube Shorts.

But our minds don’t just need motion; they need depth. Short content fills a moment, but it rarely stays.

👁️ SEE

Long-form reading is different. An essay, an in-depth article, a well-written feature—it forces attention. It makes us sit with an idea, revisit it, and see it from different angles. That process itself is meditative.

Not everyone will pick up a physical book for hours, but long articles on topics we care about—read on the same phones we spend seven or eight hours on—can be a bridge. They create clarity of thought and a sense of contentment, just as journaling does in writing. One slows the mind by expression, the other by immersion. Both train focus.

🪞 REFLECT

The question is simple: how much of your reading is feeding distraction, and how much is feeding depth?

• Can you replace 15 minutes of scrolling with one long article?
• Can you build a small ritual—choosing a weekly long read, saving it, returning to it?
• Can you allow your mind the space not just to consume, but to absorb?

Hit reply and share: what’s the last long piece of writing you read that stayed with you?

🌀 SUMMARY

Brevity informs, but depth transforms. The next step isn’t to read more, but to read deeper.