Protect the time to just think: why unproductive mental space matters more in the AI era
manosaie · x · 2026-11-10
jennywen muses that letting your brain think with no tangible outputs feels frivolous nowadays, but we may need it more than ever. manosaie agrees and expands: meaningful truths are often incongruent, and when machines can do the thinking, protecting activities that let your brain just think matters most — phoneless walks, reading real books, playing an instrument, calling old friends, writing by pen, painting, caring for something real.
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