Listening over Speaking
In the blog post “Because Reading is Fundamental” by Jeff Attwood, it is outlined why reading is more important than commenting on online articles. Attwood’s audience is likely people in the tech industry aged from mid twenties to mid forties with some post secondary education. This is because it seams like he is speaking to people who run websites or write articles rather than the users of these sites. The suggestions to encourage reading are geared to people who run and design sites. I would assume many of these people have some post secondary education and are mostly in this age range, while I am sure there are outliers. The article begins by discussing the idea that when there is a number count beside someone’s name, such as number of posts, it creates a drive for people to make that number go up. This creates the idea that the higher the number the better things are. Attwood goes on to disprove this idea by stating that reading is far more important than posting a large quanti...