DigitalCortex.ioQuick adapters share one biological advantage. Their brains flood with dopamine during sudden changes. This chemical surge enables a smooth pivot.
rhetoricA good pro tip is to do the mirror test. Record yourself in a practice conversation. Pay attention to your pace, your tone, and any jargon you use. Think of communication styles as a spectrum. You can move between direct and diplomatic. Practice adjusting your position consciously.
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GrandomasteryViktor Shklovsky's ostranenie (defamiliarization) from 1917 argues that habit automates perception, turning life into unrecognized algebra. Art's role is to prolong seeing by making the familiar strange, restoring vivid sensation to the overknown. This deliberate estrangement feels more vital than ever - a quiet rebellion against perceptual numbness. Activities like Random Image at Grandomastery invite exactly this renewed gaze on unconventional visuals. #cognitiveflexibility #grandomastery
Insights Into Books PodcastAre you thinking like a scientist, or are you stuck?
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CITO GreenhouseMirror Neurons and Empathy: Exploring the Brain’s Social Connection System
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@gurupangujiOur beautiful walled gardens of moral purity.
One day Gumroad is a symbol of independence. The next, it’s toxic. So what then—Stripe? Square? MyPillow? Ok, I went too far, that dude and his stupid pillow need to go away for good. What’s the exit strategy when every platform, store, app, whatever eventually fails our purity test?
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Here’s what really gets me about that question: the assumption that someone else has already decided for us. “Did we decide…” Not “Should I use this?” or “What do you think about this platform?” but “What’s the verdict? What’s safe? What won’t get me excommunicated from the group?”
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Not because I want to defend broken platforms or bad actors. But because I want to defend something bigger—something we’re at risk of losing: the ability to engage with people without exile. The ability to stay in dialogue—especially when we don’t see eye-to-eye. The ability to build, together, without requiring each other to pass a moral purity test every three months.
Our beautiful walled gardens of moral purity.
This spoke to me. We have one life. As long as you are a kind person who attempts to leave the world a better place than you found it, you certainly don’t need to justify yourself to me or anyone else. I have stopped doing so.
None of this is easy. As someone went increasingly and unhealthily online, it’s a big personal change. For me, it comes from a place of diversion of attention. I stopped focusing on myself and asking myself what I think and filled it with other people’s opinions and their moral justification (which is performatory given it was driven by social media). Complete the feedback loop of tribal acknowledgements and I was caught in a vicious cycle. It resulted in a lack strong conviction, adoption of other people’s / tribe’s opinions accompanied by an erosion of intolerance to differences of them.
The only way I’ve fought against this is to follow a 3 step plan:
- Reduce external stimuli – as much as I told myself that even podcasts were “fueling” my brain, the truth is that it was just reducing the time, space and opportunity to think and form original opinions and thoughts.
- Replace social media with writing (and thinking) – what happens when you have more time to think and process is that you start forming thoughts that need an outlet. I’ve first resorted to my physical journal (pen, paper).
- Focus on writing on the blog: This blog predates social media when I first developed my own CMS on geocities. I am a child of the blog and I’ve come back to sharing my own experiences here.
The social media cycle entertained me but numbed me. It was also the type of entertainment that made me feel yucky as anxiety kept building up while i never tackled what I had to process.
It’s hard to trust someone who’s been through a cleanse. They see clarity that’s hard to see for someone in the middle of the muck. There is a similar clarity that I will share one day when it comes to focusing on the physical aspects of your body too.
For now let’s just say that I am rejuvenated. I am rejuvenated to think and share those thoughts again. I am reading with a clearer mind, my focus is longer and stronger and I feel like myself again.
You should do what works for you. All the best. If you want to chat to me about it / share what you are going through, put it in the comments.
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Our beautiful walled gardens of moral purity.
“Hey did we decide that [redacted] was a Nazi hot tub, or is it okay to use?” This showed up in a private chat group recently. A simple question about a platform, but embedded in those thirteen words is everything that's broken about how we navigate the world right now.
Fanatic defensiveness of a position is likely a recipe for disaster
The next time you catch yourself getting defensive about something – really defensive, like you’re personally offended that someone would dare question it – maybe pause for a second. Ask yourself: am I defending this because it’s actually good for me, or because I’m scared to imagine alternatives?
When We Become Cheerleaders for Our Own Demise | MyNotes
Stefano. is on to something here. Cognitive flexibility is a requirement to ensure that you are considering the reality of a situation. The same applies for black and white thinking as well. Being that inflexible suggests that you are unwilling to be adaptable and that suggests you are primarily operating from a position of fear.
This is not to say that I am against vibe-coding. It has personally helped me get back into developing my own tools. I’ve made 3 chrome extensions and 7 alfred workflows that are truly making me excited about development and using my computer again. I think there’s something here that must be refined, built and leveraged into tremendous productivity gains. However, it’s a far cry from a simple utility for myself to a production ready enterprise software.
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