Eight Directions Wellness

This is basically the entire argument for meditation in two sentences. Someone cuts you off in traffic, your boss says something annoying, your kid pushes every button — and there's this tiny gap before you react. Most of us blow right past it. Meditation makes the gap bigger. You still feel the thing. You just don't have to be owned by it.

I’m far from a Luddite and use LLMs for certain tasks and research, but if we’re concerned about wellness- especially of our brains - this is worth reading.

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH