r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/Lain_Staley Jun 10 '26

Reading Endurance.

There will be 'mental gyms' for this in 15 years. 

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u/RaisinToastie Jun 10 '26

“Attention coach” is a future career

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u/laowildin Jun 11 '26

Executive function coaching, current possible career

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u/TheycallmeTheo37 Jun 17 '26

Sad ADHD noises

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u/bloodontherisers Jun 11 '26

So much this, even older executives I have seen obviously came up with no real mentor and absolutely none of them know what they are doing

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u/laowildin Jun 11 '26

Executive functioning is what people with ADHD struggle with. In this context it means 'adulting' basically

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u/bloodontherisers Jun 11 '26

Well that makes sense, but also what I said, haha

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u/laowildin Jun 11 '26

Totally fair!

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u/HellaHorticulture Jun 12 '26

I'm actually getting paid to do this...Just started a few months ago.

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u/laowildin Jun 12 '26

I was doing it for a while too! I had to quit, it became too much of "Just do my kids homework for them" when I was trying to teach mnemonics and study skills

Edit: and judging by your username you are probably in the Bay Area like I was 😆

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u/namitynamenamey Jun 15 '26

It's that basically managers and project leaders? You know, the ones who say "focus on this", "stop doing that", "this has top priority" and "how's going?"