Morning Walk With Murty

  Today’s reflection is sparked by Mahnoor Faisal’s brilliant piece on XDA Developers, which inspired us to examine our own digital reading habits. Look at your browser bookmarks, your saved folders, and your unread direct messages. If you are like most digital professionals, these spaces have quietly morphed into digital graveyards. We experience a quick dopamine hit when we save a link, tricking ourselves into feeling productive. But as we discussed on a recent Morning Walk with Murty, saving a thoughtful article without scheduling a dedicated time to read it is like locking a rare book inside a digital storage unit, throwing away the key, and hoping it will magically read itself. We are currently living through a somewhat dystopian era of the internet, driven by what is increasingly being called the “AI slop loop”. You might save a long-form article, use an AI tool to summarize it into three bullet points, and forward it to a colleague, who then uses another AI tool to gen...