2 minutes of scrolling articles and quick comments is more refreshing than a 15 minute break relaxing.
I am not at all convinced, and in fact this might be the first time I’ve heard anyone say low attention span piecemeal content does anything but rot your brain.
I thought this was as well known as “rubber duck debugging”?
That’s… a completely different thing? Rubberducking is when you explain your problem out in words, which engages the speech production part of your brain which often helps you solve the problem by making you crystallize your thoughts.
It works. I use this during my workday when I’m working on highly complex things that have multi inter-dependent relations. It becomes fatiguing. A quick scroll through Lemmy is more refreshing than just sitting there
I am not at all convinced, and in fact this might be the first time I’ve heard anyone say low attention span piecemeal content does anything but rot your brain.
That’s… a completely different thing? Rubberducking is when you explain your problem out in words, which engages the speech production part of your brain which often helps you solve the problem by making you crystallize your thoughts.
It works. I use this during my workday when I’m working on highly complex things that have multi inter-dependent relations. It becomes fatiguing. A quick scroll through Lemmy is more refreshing than just sitting there
Well, that’s the neat thing, you didn’t…
I’m talking about deliberately practicing cognitive flexibility which literally combats that…
100% spot on here.
If I said Wayne Gretzky was as well known as Michael Jordan, you’d also be correct in pointing out they were two separate people.
And if I said Bo Jackson is as popular as Bo Jackson…
I shouldn’t be surprised if someone asked me why I compared the same thing to itself, but apparently some people would take it in stride.
Oh, I thought you said “this was well known as rubber-duck debugging”, with only one as.