What Comes After Diagnosis

Understanding why reading broke is not an exercise in nostalgia or blame. It is a necessary step toward rebuilding a reading life that fits the world we now inhabit.

The Art of the Read begins here-not by rejecting modernity, but by restoring agency: learning when to skim, when to slow down, and when to stay with a page long enough for it to change us.

Reading did not fail us.

We changed the conditions under which we ask it to work.

This book is an attempt to change those conditions again - quietly, deliberately, and without performance. One reader at a time. One habit at a time. One page at a time.

If you’d like to see how that work unfolds, there are a few ways to continue.