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

Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.

mikecaulfield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

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

Freud defined depression as anger turned inwards. There’s some truth to this for sure, but I think the great existential psychologist Rollo May defined it more accurately: “Depression is the inability to construct a future.”

Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You

The Ecology of Attention

Lia Purpura agnionline.bu.edu

How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines

Kyle Chayka newyorker.com

Intially created as a way to collect all of the things for my depression, anxiety, ADHD - and either I’ve been terrible at collecting things, or I am looking for the solution in a totally new and different area.

Your brain on shrooms — how psilocybin resets neural networks

Max Kozlov nature.com

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.

Andy Olin • Public libraries are the crazy, radical ideas that might save society | Kinder Institute for Urban Research

It blows me away that I work for myself and yet I somehow I have to keep up with 3 calendars.