Hoarding
Social media doesn’t let us actually absorb the information we consume. We’re blasted with low-context content and given no time to reflect on what we’ve just consumed before the next video starts to play. Functionally, it’s the same as junk food – we absorb the message straight into our psyche without vetting it, contextualizing it or reflecting... See more
Mental obesity = over consuming + under creating.
The more you gather ideas, and “perfect” your work, the heavier your mind gets.
Eventually it becomes so overweight it can't move.
Jonathan Nottsubstack.com
In collecting all those articles and bookmarks, I’d been engaging in what the Substacker Harjas Sandhu, in an insightful post, calls “hoarding-type scrolling”. The hallmark of this behaviour, he writes, is “saving good posts for later instead of reading them now… I feel like a squirrel looking for fat nuts to stash in my little tree hole. The
... See moreThe internet taught us to consume everything. Save everything. Remember everything. But wisdom isn't about remembering more. It's about knowing what to keep close.
Here, I keep only what resonates. What rings true. What feels like a bell being struck in an empty room. Not another feed to scroll, but a garden where each saved moment has room to put
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