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Product Designer, Writer, Side-project enthusiast
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the word ‘brainrot’ isn’t even an exaggeration
a recent meta-analysis study showed evidence that short form videos:
- lower your IQ
- make you anxious
- make you stressed
- induce mental illnesses
a recent meta-analysis study showed evidence that short form videos:
- lower your IQ
- make you anxious
- make you stressed
- induce mental illnesses
liam • why you feel behind in life
The architecture of digital platforms encourage us to consume information because it’s in front of us, not because it’s relevant. On Twitter, nothing has to be remembered, studied, applied, or reflected on. It’s an environment that promotes distracted thinking and superficial learning.
Adam Grant • Check Your Pulse #55
The messaging about social media is so confusing. On one hand, it’s the domain of the embarrassingly anti-intellectual, attention-hungry, vain, stupid, trollish... Yet on the other hand, social media can also supposedly propel people to the presidency and shape an entire generation’s opinion on geopolitical issues. So what does it mean to advocate... See more
Chris Jesu Lee • Scroll Up, Cash In, Check Out
Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle
Siân Boyletheguardian.com
How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
nytimes.com
“Using SM too often leaves my mind feeling like I have a hundred open browser windows, or a gang of CPU sapping programs running in the background, to really push it over the edge here with the computer metaphors.”
The pressure to perform and present a curated version of our lives is unbearable and unrealistic, and engagement based services have greatly altered how a majority of people in today’s world perceive their own value and worth.
Carter Moore • Why I Deleted Instagram
I love social media (obviously, I write this newsletter). But there are days when I blast through my TikTok time limit and am left feeling exhausted. So much of my job (and most jobs these days) are wrapped up in staying relevant with what’s going on in the world — constantly up to date, dialed in, on the pulse. Despite the fun times I have online,
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