@bugdeveloper.bsky.social

@bugdeveloper.bsky.social

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"What has fundamentally changed the world for the worst but us humans haven’t realised?" "The answer is the collapse of unstructured time — and specifically, what smartphones and algorithmic feeds have done to boredom. For the vast majority of human history, boredom was not a problem to be solved. It was a cognitive state that forced the brain into a mode we now call the “default mode network” — a kind of mental background processing where you consolidate memories, develop empathy by imagining other people’s lives, generate creative ideas, and build a coherent sense of self. When you stared out a window, waited for a bus, or sat quietly after dinner, your brain was doing some of its most important work. Boredom was, in a very real sense, the engine of the inner life."