Brian Guggenheimer

Software engineer helping to elect democrats. Forever #TeamPete. (he/him)

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

“Writing is hard because the writer is learning”

A breath of warm, dusty air in the new cover story from @rosehorowitch in the Atlantic. This is the kind of well-researched, conscious prose that sticks with you after you read it.

https://t.co/CAYVq1e4Ov

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

The Atlantic’s new cover story by @rosehorowitch is absolutely definitive on the end of the age of reading in America—and the emergence of a new post-literate age in modern life

Some core facts and anecdotes:

1. Reading is shrinking. The share of Americans who read for pleasure declined by 43 percent between 2004 and 2023. While Americans might see more words than ever—between all those texts, posts, emails, and captions—less than half of Americans read books, anymore. The average sentence in NYT bestsellers are one-third shorter than a century ago.

2. Americans can swallow words and sentences, but they’re losing the ability to think deeply about writing that’s longer than an Instagram post. Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text. In 2017, that number was less than 20 percent.

3. It’s worse for the young. Fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores have slid for the past decade. From 1984 to 2025, the percentage of 13-year-olds who said they rarely or never read for fun rose from 8 to 29 percent.

4. “Every year older a child gets, the less they like to read”: Most high-schoolers consider reading for pleasure an alien practice. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, says some students view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge. “By asking them to read,” she said, it's as if “professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium.”

https://t.co/kk8qktY6fd

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

“You may not like this at my former school, Haverford…”

True! As a Haverford alum I do not like Alex Karp preemptively fighting against a wealth tax while acknowledging that AI will concentrate even more wealth in even fewer hands.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

This is by far one of the most important things I’ve watched in 2026.

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

Agreed. The Spurs should give Brunson more space and less respect in Game 3 and Game 4.

Give us a clean sweep.

[Spurs Culture @SpursCulture]

Game 3 adjustment

Stop doubling Brunson like he's Curry, Spurs are giving up way too many open threes to ELITE three point shooters from those high doubles

Make Brunson score 1-on-1, he's shooting 33% from the field, Spurs are giving him way too much respect as a scorer

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

@ttagaris B) most individual donations
C) most dollars

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

“Sent from my iPad”

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Not everything is about Trump. I just believe every citizen's vote ought to count the same.

And that the person who gets the most votes ought to win.

Also, wouldn't it be nice for Utah to no longer be ignored in presidential politics?

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

@barbour_mike And it’s not like it was real life even before the truth social folks came back. But I’m a real person and I appreciated the tweet

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

@bcherny Is there a reason you use add-dir vs running claude in a parent dir with both? This is my main impediment to using worktrees for full stack development across two repos, since there are two separate repositories

[U.S. Department of Transportation @USDOT]

El secretario Buttigieg visitó Las Vegas para celebrar el inicio de construcción de la nueva línea de autobuses de transporte rápido en Maryland Parkway. La línea ofrecerá transporte más barato, rápido y cómodo.

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

@PatrickBelongs 🍞🥖🍞

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

@MikeNellis @Authentic_HQ I'm sorry that you're having to spend time and energy on this nonsense

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Mark Cuban: “I actually started off supporting Donald, then I got to know him.”

[Peacock @peacock]

Well what do I do now?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Buttigieg as Vance criticizing Dems as anti-family: "Let's be clear: we're the ones trying to get the child tax credit expanded. JD Vance couldn't be bothered to show up in the Senate & vote for it... if you want to talk about promoting family, put your money where your mouth is"

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

Pete just killed it in CNN. It’ll be fun to see those clips soon. Keep an eye out #TeamPete

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

@yashar Sure, it took some time after the debate. But a few weeks is not that long for someone who had won the nomination for President. And the *way* he's done it and the grace he's shown since has been selfless.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: Being a teacher, a coach, a senior noncommissioned officer. What they all have in common is supporting other people. The Trump Campaign can’t figure out what to do with this ticket. They can’t fathom a campaign, or any leaders, who are not about themselves.

[Brian Guggenheimer @bguggs]

@ConservBlue2020 @atrupar She's so meme-able I love it

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

It was an honor to be considered in this process, but @Tim_Walz is a great friend and a great choice. I fully support this new ticket and will work to elect @KamalaHarris as our next President of the United States.