TJ Walker argues that endless scrolling, copying, pasting, and shallow emails erode your thinking ability over time. He says modern work is designed to avoid deep thought, and this habit follows you home through constant media consumption. His answer: actively engage your mind instead of letting it atrophy.
A huge percentage of modern work is the exact opposite of this. It's passive, it's repetitive, it's click, scroll, copy, paste, meetings where nobody thinks, emails that could have been sentences, days where your brain is technically on but functionally asleep. And then people go home and do more of the same. Scroll, watch, consume, repeat. And then we act surprised when cognitive decline shows up later. This is not mysterious. This is behavioral. This is cumulative. We built a world where it's easier than ever to avoid thinking. And then we're shocked when thinking becomes harder. Ultimize.
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