I look forward to your writing because you write with clarity and conviction, and you don't shy away from expressing views that will challenge mainstream ideas. This one got me thinking about my own practices, and why I've never been interested in audiobooks.

Consumption of information is overrated because knowing more stuff doesn't translate into increased intelligence in navigating life or character development. I'm more likely to contemplate how to implement something I read that stuck with me than anything I heard through consumption, unless I paused to intentionally do something with it.

Hearing a book and listening to a book are two different things. To know that you understood the author's intended meaning through listening (not hearing) requires a feedback process between yourself and your expression of that understanding (ie journalling/writing) or between you and someone else to help you make sense of it. Hearing a book is like bingeing Netflix. You're getting through it while being entertained and stimulated rather than enriched.