Read what’s lit.Let the rest wait.

We rarely lose our place on the page because the words are difficult. We lose it because everything around them is asking to be noticed: a badge in the corner, a tab that just changed color, the next paragraph quietly pulling the eye downward before this one is finished.

Reading well has always meant narrowing the world. Monks used a finger, students used a ruler, and readers by candlelight had only the small circle the flame could reach. The darkness was not an obstacle. It was the point.

A screen gives us the opposite: every pixel equally bright, every line equally loud. So give the eye one warm place to rest, and let the rest of the page wait its turn.