## re: Fix your Brain

Kelbot has an interesting piece entitled "Fixing My Dummy
Brain with a PDA."

=>gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2021-09-29-dummybrainpda.gmi	piece

Experiments like this make it clear how much the medium 
really is the message.  Furthermore, it would seem that 
they restore some what of our attention and ability to seek
depth.  

I know this space tends to select for technical ability, so
I also want to put in a good word for paper-and-pen  
options.  I have switched my vocabulary system (currently
just Spanish, but I want to dive more into older English
texts, so I'll be beefing up that vocabulary as well) to 
notebooks -- scavenged ones at that. Also, I intend to 
exploit the absurd market "inefficiency" of paper books at 
library for as long as that exists [1].

Often what is most important about a system is not what it
connects to, but what it filters out.  And paper systems 
are top-notch for this.

Text-based systems without the distractions of web 2.0 --
what I have seen recently described as " a manic screaming 
bullshit parade" -- gives your work flow a heightened 
ability, understanding, sustainability, and what seems like
a paradox of more time for diffuse thoughts -- only they 
are your thoughts that are bubbling up, not what you are 
manipulated to jerk toward in an endless, exhausting 
zig-zag.



[1] As a hilarious result of artificial scarcity and neo-
robber-barronism is that the economics of loaning out paper 
books versus electronic copies is not so clear cut.  At least 
in school libraries, the paper books are the less expensive 
option, as you pay once and don't have to deal with micro-
transactions and sliding scales.  But, of course, the logic
of late stage capital asks "why do you need that building,
with it's upkeep costs, offices, public (what's that?) 
spaces.  Markets would be so much more efficiently if, you 
know, we could get rid of the people.

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I'd love to hear from people.  My email is the handle minus
"net" (so, a work by Voltaire that starts with "c"), at 
sdf.org.