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The Dark Side of Scrolling: How It Affects Your Brain and Leads to 'Brain Rot'. 1. **Dopamine Overload**: Scrolling activates the brainโs reward system, releasing dopamine, the feel-good chemical. Each new post gives a small hit, making it hard to stop. Over time, this can lead to addictive behavior, where your brain craves constant stimulation. 2. **Decreased Attention Span**: The rapid consumption of short, bite-sized content fragments your attention span. Your brain gets used to shifting focus quickly, making it harder to concentrate on deeper tasks like reading or problem-solving. 3. **Mental Fatigue**: The overload of information leaves your brain exhausted, leading to decision fatigue, anxiety, and difficulty processing information. 4. **Reduced Memory Retention**: Constantly bombarding your brain with new, often irrelevant content prevents it from properly encoding memories, making it hard to retain important information.
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Many people here are talking about Ed tech with short video form content. I don't think that will work. The pain point is that short/reel gives us very much less time to evaluate or retain information resulting in no information gain but loss of att
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The visionary behind short-form video content expertly tapped into human psychology, creating an experience that's dangerously addictive. 1. Dopamine Feedback Loop: Watching reels triggers dopamine, the "feel-good" neurotransmitter. The unpredictabi
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Lessons from the book โ โข The Organized Mind Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload" by Daniel J. Levitin: 1. Attention is a limited resource: Focus on what's truly important to avoid distraction and mental fatigue. 2. Use chunking
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๐ง A Swiss company, FinalSpark, has created a computer architecture from human brain material โ and rents it out on the "Neuroplatform" for $500 per month. A piece of brain, 0.5 mm wide, is connected to eight electrodes that stimulate neurons and li
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