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Still aging well
I saw someone saying that they thought scrolling was affecting their memory formation, because it teaches the brain to immediately discard what it just saw to situate itself in a new context, over and over again. Something to this I think
Lauren Wilfordx.comAttention spans and deficits
One of the biggest sources of discontent is a mental motion that many do continually:
Planning what decision you will make ahead of when the time comes to make the decision.
Lulietwitter.comAnalysis paralysis takes different forms. Delaying action or preempting action are means of avoiding action.
Switching brain state costs energy
"Stable" brain states exist in local energy minima, so there is an energy barrier to overcome to switch from one state to another
Nice summary of relevant papers and work by @DaniSBassett here:
https://t.co/wanGBIwpoX https://t.co/SVnpKl3ATc
On the efficacy of multitasking
Order is important. Better to perform tasks requiring lower activation energy before more demanding ones. Build into it. Switching is expensive.
And the uncredited bioweapon
fast forward a year from now. your life is the best it's ever been, entirely as a result of your own choices.
what choices did you make now and in the coming months that created that reality for you?
Love Pilgrimx.comAgency and
Profound. I'll have to return to this one.
It strikes me a higher-level decomposition of that Naval thread.
The “scrub” believes that by learning to play the game the proper way, they will come out on top in the long run—that exploiting cheapness is shortsighted and doesn’t build skill.
Scrubs play for an imaginary version of “mastery”, while top players Play to Win.