the urge to write up an essay about the horrors of dopamine hijacking and the lessons i've learned in the intervening two weeks and then post it to an app that is actively hijacking its users dopamine and fostering a culture of attention war.

okay i did it.

at me, i dare you.

https://paragraph.com/@cbxm/your-brain-on-farcaster

no kings. only working on impossible things.

This quite literally spoke to me.

The highly curated posting, the KBC*, the addiction to information. All things I've been wanting to call out but haven't because I don't have a better solution besides logging off.

I've actually been meaning to temporarily log off since January but haven't let myself because I have no reliable way to message mutuals without Warpcast. I'd love nothing more than an inbox available only to mutuals that I can read at my leisure without having to subject myself to the feeds.

> the chemical highs of easy dopamine don't offset the chemical lows they bring.

This slapped. Like a wall of bricks to the face.

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* I've seen Keynesian Beauty Contest half a dozen times here and never understood it, even with the Wikipedia summary, so thank you for breaking it down

do iiittttttt!! take back your brain! 

I also haven't been able to fully log off because of messaging reasons, and I think that's fine. those are real connections, and it's work to maintain them.

glad you enjoyed. go call your mom.