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This is completely off-topic but I find it so hard to convince myself to read a 14,000 word (or any other long-form) article anymore.

At least the New Yorker doesn't try to maximise ad revenue by splitting this across 25 pages.

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I don't mind reading long-form content, it's just that I can't do it on a computer or mobile. Give me a beach chair and a magazine, and I'll gladly read the whole thing. Computer, just can't do it.

Me too. I'm sending it to my Kindle, it's great to read this types of articles.

Yeah, my hard copy is probably going to show up Wednesday or Thursday. Sometimes I wish the discussion on New Yorker articles would get delayed a week.

I hear that. I subscribe to the paper versions of some magazines in preference to their online versions precisely so I can read them story at a time over breakfast and pass them around the family.

Especially ones that probably won't leave me feeling like I know anything more about the world after finishing. I look forward to the brief HN user summaries over the coming hours.

I was plo/ugh|w/ing through it until I noticed the size of the scroll-bar nubbin relative to the length of the scroll-bar itself and thought, "uh oh" to myself. Little later had to bail when there wasn't enough meat to chew on.

So no full summary here: partial summary is -- a16z and their ilk make Silicon Valley tick, Andreesen is a foul-mouthed visionary, Horowitz is less interesting, together they make a good team.

Don't mean to come across as glib. I enjoyed what I read and it's up to the New Yorker's typical standards.

I've never finished an article in the New Yorker, not because of their length, but because of their lack on content relative to said length. It's all decorum and posturing.

I took the advice elsewhere in the thread to read the last 1/3rd of the article. It seemed pretty good.

Copy the text into a text reader (such as Voice Dream), and listen to it

kondro stood there facing towards us with his john lennon style glasses that looked like he had recently been to a high-end designer shop. the glasses had black thin rims as he surveyed his audience with friendly blah blah blah

Too much detail. The New Yorker should produce a tl;dr version like The Economist does (http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2014/11/economist-es...)

Maybe you're not their target audience? I think the New Yorker is geared toward people who like the process of reading and enjoy when the author paints a picture in their mind. If you just want the tl;dr version, then there's other places to go. I think it's nice that they reach a different kind of audience.

Telling the New Yorker that they should produce TL;DR versions of their work is like telling Thomas Keller that the French Laundry should serve Soylent.

had no idea this existed although i have a subscription, thanks!

Heh... Exactly. Too much "atmosphere". Too much repetition of that "one page on a specific person's story and one page on the systematic social trend this person's story illustrates" is now gone beyond slightly annoying to the point of tediousness. Newyorker is pretty much cartoons and the small one page or less articles for me now. I'll make exceptions for Anthony Lane's movie reviews and occasional longer form articles. And anything with Malcom Gladwell's name just makes me angry at this point.

I doubt the subj man himself would read it. Would probably ask an assistant to summarize.

PS: maybe authors are paid per word?

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