{"id":810,"date":"2026-10-23T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/kanye-west-sam-bankman-fried-and-the-cult-of-not-reading-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:32:09","slug":"kanye-west-sam-bankman-fried-and-the-cult-of-not-reading-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/kanye-west-sam-bankman-fried-and-the-cult-of-not-reading-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cult of Not Reading &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many books should not have been published, and writing one is an excruciating process full of failure. But when a book succeeds, even partially, it represents a level of concentration and refinement\u2014a mastery of subject and style strengthened through patience and clarified in revision\u2014that cannot be equaled. Writing a book is an extraordinarily disproportionate act: What can be consumed in a matter of hours takes years to bring to fruition. That is its virtue. And the rare patience a book still demands of a reader\u2014those precious slow hours of deep focus\u2014is also a virtue.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/01\/kanye-west-sam-bankman-fried-books-reading\/672823\/\">www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/01\/kanye-west-sam-bankman-fried-books-reading\/672823\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many books should not have been published, and writing one is an excruciating process full of failure. But when a book succeeds, even partially, it represents a level of concentration and refinement\u2014a mastery of subject and style strengthened through patience and clarified in revision\u2014that cannot be equaled. Writing a book is an extraordinarily disproportionate act: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,36,23,38],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-reading","tag-reasoning","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}