[hindsightbias]

Don’t worry, you get wiser. Instead of chasing the latest IT fad or whatever, you realize it’s mostly something regurgitaded or rebranded and just smirk. Even if it is new, it will be old in a few years.

Travel, read books, do things with your hands. The average iphone user is losing IQ points pretty rapidly and they’ll be on meds soon enough to not be any form of competition.

[BigHatLogan]

Yeah, I do wonder how much of this is "smartphone-induced" sometimes. I can almost "feel" my brain growing increasingly sluggish by the day...maybe a break is in order.

[sockaddr]

More on this point, I think it’s important to realize that a lot of technology (like phones) puts you in a “reaction” loop as opposed to your brain’s natural state of “self-entertainment?” for lack of a better term. Thinking is a muscle, you have to work it and looking at memes, tweets, api docs, etc is all fundamentally just reacting to something. Go plan something, design something, anything. But all this comes after sleep. Fix your sleep first if necessary.