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Morning Sunlight and Walking
Walk outside in the morning to leverage optic flow and reduce amygdala activity, lowering anxiety.
Combine walking with sunlight exposure to stimulate melanopsin neurons.
This triggers biological cascades that promote alertness and synchronize your body's systems.
Viewing bright sunlight times your cortisol pulse, which is
You can’t always control the things that happen to you, but you can control your reaction
Kyle Tibbitts • #19 — John Andrew Entwistle — Traveling into the future
"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
Conn McQuinn
Jul 4
First, if we don't have sufficient in-brain skill and knowledge, we won't know what to ask the AI to do or how to interpret the products it creates. Second, if we turn over our thinking to AI, we are doing ourselves harm. I don't mean that in the metaphorical sense. Our brains are like muscles, and the harder they are used, the... See more
Jul 4
First, if we don't have sufficient in-brain skill and knowledge, we won't know what to ask the AI to do or how to interpret the products it creates. Second, if we turn over our thinking to AI, we are doing ourselves harm. I don't mean that in the metaphorical sense. Our brains are like muscles, and the harder they are used, the... See more
Ethan Mollick • Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
Milanote - the tool for organizing creative projects
milanote.com
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea.
... See moreWilliam Deresiewicz • Solitude and Leadership
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. — ALAN WATTS
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
AI Key by Dafdef - let an AI control your phone
dafdef.com
Keeping my eye on this, really thinking about pre-ordering it; just need to find out more info about the apps it’s compatible with, whether it charges a subscription also, etc.