Reclaim The Brain

My attention is shot. I’d like to have another go. Things about focus, the ruination of focus, ADHD, and paying attention.

David Pennington

'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press

corp.oup.com

Well, that tracks.

Basic dynamic in life: there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it. This is the paradox of feeling, and it’s inherent and existential. If things inspire real positive emotion in you then they are necessarily things in which you are sufficiently invested that you would feel negative emotions when t... See more

freddiedeboer.substack.com • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.

But boredom is when life happens.

Nick Catucci • You might just have to be bored

As a method, marginalia remind us that all annotation is allusive, that all literature is connected to everything else, that the reader influences the writer as surely as the other way around, and even if the later has been dead for centuries.

Ed Simon • Annotate This: On Marginalia

Mary Oliver said, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

Hi, I'm Meg. I write about what I see.

She thought about that for a moment. “But it’s so boring,” she said. “Yes, that’s true,” I said. “Boredom is not just boring. It can also be terrifying. It forces us to come face-to-face with bigger questions of meaning and purpose. But boredom is also an opportunity for discovery and invention. It creates the space necessary for a new thought to f

Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Your brain on shrooms — how psilocybin resets neural networks

Max Kozlov nature.com

What would happen if you did a Zoom call with the people who follow your work? Or if you planned a small dinner with other creative people in your orbit? Say we use the internet as a tool to make the plans, and then we close the laptop and build with the handful of people in front of us - then what? What could we do that we’re avoiding because we’r