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That's exactly my issue. Like you, my reading is actually on topics that I'm interested in, sometimes even obsessed with.
But that doesn't make it a good use of time. I often do too much reading, too little doing.
And that's what I'm trying to fix. It's amazing - if it's not convenient to go into the endless scroll options, your mind goes in different directions. You see things around the house that you should do. You pick up the rubik's cube, and try to solve it. You call friends you haven't talked to in a long time.