Could you watch this video on full screen, 1x speed, with no distractions? Here are five steps to rebuild your attention span
Don't Get Distracted
I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.
How to be more creative in seconds!
The wandering mind: A gift we squander - Darius Foroux
Most people treat a wandering mind like a defect. They see it as a leak in their productivity bucket. We’ve been conditioned to believe that if we aren’t staring at a screen or checking off a to-do list, we are failing. But Daniel Goleman, the […]
In the Battle for Attention
Slop is gaining ground. Low-quality content, including AI-generated trash, is advancing on all fronts for attention.
why "things to do instead of doomscrolling" never works
Do not give up your brain
It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.
Stage Four: The Trump Simulacrum and Attention Economy Decay
The contemporary media apparatus has completed Baudrillard's fourth stage of simulation: coverage no longer reflects, distorts, or substitutes for political reality — it generates one. Donald Trump did not cause this. He is its perfect product.
How the hypercuriosity of ADHD may have helped humans thrive | Aeon Essays
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information
Think First, AI Second
Three principles for keeping your cognitive edge while leveraging AI's capabilities
waking world
Four Months Later, My Head Is Quiet - Ewan’s Blog
I didn’t realise how much of my baseline was illness until parts of it disappeared.
Vibe Coding: The Final Form of Hyper-Individualism
A few days ago, I had to deal with the first "vibe coded" PR to my software. In this article, I reflect on this encounter, and analyze the social …
