Academic struggling with staying on top of reading current research

[asstprof]

Now, I only slow down when I read for pleasure or if I'm dealing with difficult concepts (which academic papers do have, but only sparsely).

Anyway, you can't manufacture more time so the choice is to not read the papers, drop other tasks to make time for them, or learn speed reading.

Huh. It's an interesting thought, but I just don't think that would work for math papers. In fact my struggle is often to make myself slow down enough to grasp any of the arguments...