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by paulcole 359 days ago
> your brain got rewired

Rewire it back! You're acting like this is basically a one-way door when it's not.

Just read a book without picking up your phone for 30 minutes a day. It's not that complicated.

> Smart people, curious people, people who wanted to read.

If they wanted to read they'd be doing it.

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I mean yes. It can be rewired back. But I think twitter (specifically for me) is required for my industry. I try to limit it to 30 min a day, but still I cannot cut it completely.

There are concentration exercises that can be done, but they are demanding...

> There are concentration exercises that can be done, but they are demanding...

Well you get to decide what you dislike more, having a terrible attention span or doing demanding concentration exercises.

... and if you read to the end they seem to be producing yet another AI summarizer that nobody wants despite Big Tech shoving it down our throats and two or three "Show HN(s)" a day... Which this post should have been.