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
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history.
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
I should just write down and publish all of the best ideas I’ve ever had, as quickly and casually as I can, in succession.
Justin Murphy • On Idea Hoarding
Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.
mikecaulfield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
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.
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?
But 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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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.