Summaries can create blind spots

Mickey Mellen
2 min readApr 30, 2024

I’m a big fan of summaries, as they can be a great way to get a lot of information in a short period of time. Blinkist creates fantastic summaries, and I certainly read them quite often.

That said, summaries can leave you short. In his book “ Clear Thinking “, Shane Parrish shares:

Reading a summary might be faster than reading a full document, but it misses a lot of details…

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Mickey Mellen

I’m a cofounder of @GreenMellen, and I’m into WordPress, blogging and seo. Love my two girls, gadgets, Google Earth, and I try to run when I can.