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.
Reclaim The Brain
I think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I don’t always want to do it, and it’s not always technically enjoyable; sometimes it’s boring or slow, sometimes it’s tiring and pointless, sometimes it’s cold or wet or windy and I’m retracing the same... See more
Rayne Fisher-Quann • Choosing to Walk
Friction-maxxing is not simply a matter of reducing your screen time, or whatever. It’s the process of building up tolerance for “inconvenience” (which is usually not inconvenience at all but just the vagaries of being a person living with other people in spaces that are impossible to completely control) — and then reaching even toward enjoyment.... See more
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Tech companies want you to think that life is generally difficult and inconvenient. It’s not. But without this idea, they don’t really have a reason to exist. In some cases, their mere presence IS the reason life is more difficult than it needs to be.
The point Klinenberg wanted to make was this: If there was no such thing as a library, and someone proposed it today, there's a 99.9% chance they and their “radical and crazy idea” would be laughed out of the room.
But, as we know, it’s not a crazy idea.
But, as we know, it’s not a crazy idea.
Andy Olin • Public libraries are the crazy, radical ideas that might save society | Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Most of us have a hard limit on the number of focused sessions we can do each day.
Chris Guillebeau • Executive Functioning and the Limits of Hyperfocus
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... See more
Freddie deBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. - Freddie deBoer You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
If you do not deep read, you do not cultivate a capacity to think, imagine, and create; you therefore may not realize that anything more satisfying than a video game even exists.
Adam Garfinkle • The Erosion of Deep Literacy
I set an intention for 2025: fewer things, fewer tabs open at once - on my laptop and in my mind - but doing things well, present and mindful. Less, but better.
Tom Greenwood • What if the Key to Better Business Was… Less?
humans talking like machines
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
With LLMs all but conversing with their userbase, the variations between human and “talking like machines” is thinner by the day. I think we also see this across movies and modern books and social media. Maybe it started with the listicle format of content being all the rage, or content experts saying there is a specific way to set up content on the page for maximum human engagement.
This phrase suggests a blurring of boundaries between human communication and machine-like processing, highlighting how AI influences us to adopt more mechanical, perhaps less spontaneous ways of thinking and talking.