See Everything As New - Live, Frictionless
Test Pattern, the fiction, plays with both form and content to shine a spotlight on the reader’s speed and shape of attention when reality is questionable.
The information super-highway (a.k.a. the internet), meanwhile, offers a cognitive playground without speed-limit, yield, or outlet signs. And burnt rubber dries out the I of eyes—you know?—so we have designed this website to offer a kind of natural moisturizer.
As you make your way through all the site has to offer, a few top-down principles may be helpful lubricants:
Love art; befriend science
Science is a playground of innovation to address suffering; its rewards, however, can attach to one’s sense of purpose to create a lifestyle and lifetime of unquenchable need for control, searching for that ultimate deterministic formula.
Science is a trusted friend and guide to societal evolution, but it cannot produce well-being out of nothing. If it is the middle, art is the beginning and the end.
Love language; ignore the word
Language is geometry; its beauty presents as the symmetries, rhymes, and reasons of relational structures.
The word is a vessel, an empty messenger - fundamentally separate from the substance of the matter. Truth, and language, is nonverbal.
Value attention (not just yours)
Imagine attention as a continuous spotlight whose lumen count trends downward in waves throughout the circadian day.
Attend to others like you do yourself.
Exercise and replenish working memory
Play games that require recent-memory retrieval.
Observe carefully your habits with alcohol, cannabis, or any other practice that “frags” working memory. Disrupting entrenched cognitive schemas is a foundation of growth, but poorly moderated habits are destabilizing.