This compression culture doesn't just change how we think, but I argue it changes what we expect from every aspect of human experience! The things that matter most — love, wisdom, skill, character — resist compression for the same reason great literature does. compression changes the compressorEvery time you choose the summary over the story, you're performing surgery on your own brain. Compression culture has trained them to mistake the map for the territory, the summary for the experience, the headline for the whole damn story. We've built a culture that worships efficiency over depth, optimization over exploration, answers over the sacred act of questioning.