Why Listening to Audiobooks at Normal Speed Is a Waste of Time (thatjournalingguy.substack.com)

Stop gatekeeping people’s enjoyment of audiobooks.

alternatively, consider that humans have a breathing, speaking/listening, and memory timing link which has been evolving for 100Ks of years

The article about "gridification" in music on the front page seems apropos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150163

> We exist in time and in historical context, and all of our relations, private and social, are mediated by the ongoing negotiation of difference. Music carries knowledge of those forms: tension and resolution, growth and attenuation, conflict and coordination. It cultivates a sensitivity to how feeling unfolds in time.

> Gridification denies us access to those forms of knowledge. More than that, it substitutes a corrupted symbolic representation of felt life, one defined by machinic precision and optimization [...] that surrounds us increasingly presents a morphology of unfolding that no human being actually inhabits.

1. Not everything is about efficiency.

2. People don't all have the same goals as you.

3. These kinds of posts are awful

If it's too slow, I tune out, if it's too fast I tune out.