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
One of the take-home lessons of Buddhist philosophy is that feelings just are. If we accepted their arising and subsiding as part of life, rather than reacting to them as if they were deeply meaningful, we’d often be better off. Learning to do that is a big part of what mindfulness meditation is about.
Why Buddhism is True | https://highlights.melanie-richards.com
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
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Conclusions: Drumming is a complex composite intervention with the potential to modulate specific neuroendocrine and neuroimmune parameters in a direction opposite to that expected with the classic stress response.
Composite effects of group drumming music therapy on modulation of neuroendocrine-immune parameters in normal subjects - PubMed (nih.go
... See moreBut solitude and loneliness are not one and the same. “It is actually a very healthy emotional response to feel some loneliness,” the NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg told me. “That cue is the thing that pushes you off the couch and into face-to-face interaction.” The real problem here, the nature of America’s social crisis, is that most Americans... See more
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Thoughts on AI (particularly generative AI) in no particular order of development or importance:
The widespread use of AI is resulting in the largest collective brain drain of the human experience. But is this the result of COVID (remote learning, overreliance on online experiences, mental decline from Long COVID) and AI is the tool used to
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.
Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.
mikecaulfield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
It is tempting, in moments of ambition, to think that we must change everything all at once, that the path to mastery or peace requires a sudden, dramatic shift. But this is rarely the case. In truth, most lasting changes come from small, deliberate actions. It is in the repetition of these small actions, over time, that we build strength, that we... See more
Bill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
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.