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If anybody wants to do this, they have my support, as a friend That said, my experience is so different from this. My brain is *nourished* because of the Internet. Maybe itâs an alien thing...? Many are pummelled by the waves, some run from them, others learn to surf https://t.co/T7LTh9fNKY
People donât know how to deal with fragmentation, but fragmentation is not a bad thing in of itself https://t.co/cpBu5lDZDr
Been reflecting on this for some time, this idea that the web destroys peopleâs ability to focus on something like reading a book. Sometimes I suspect people have it sort of backwards. Focusing on a single self-contained experience to me is sometimes kind of like eating baby food https://t.co/69AqVk4Vwr
I guess, ironically, my ADHD means I have been living with âthe Internetâ my entire life, with both the joys and pains that entails. And maybe the secret to managing the Internet might be found in the methods people use to manage their ADHD https://t.co/wg2aqOLXmq
Iâve basically taught myself to manage my ADHD with notes and threads. My âschedule intelligenceâ (deadlines, calendars, checklist) is terrible but my recognition and web-jumping is fantastic, so I spent something like a decade using the latter to build an elaborate mind-palace https://t.co/A2E4okufzH
In my experience, the solution to a fragmented reality is to build your own web to process it with. Tiago has a great point about how youâre only overwhelmed if you have a particular set of expectations https://t.co/3qcc2wlJYC
Interesting conversation with a writer friend earlier about the fragmentation of information. We both agreed that fragmentation isn't actually a bad thing - what's missing & needed is better threading. Twitter threads are a specific instantiation of a solution to bigger problem
This: âinformation overloadâ is the same class of problem as âexistential crisisâ. The real problem is upstream - not the âproblem itselfâ, but how youâre thinking about it. Itâs an expectation/conceptualization problem https://t.co/YZ4RJVbnUM
This is reminding me of my original motivation for doing @introspectVV. To whom it may concern: I donât believe that the problem is your inability to focus, or that you have distractions in your vicinity. I believe the problem is that you donât know who you are or what you want.
the world is for surfing https://t.co/qlEdg6Dr9E
