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Your Brain is a Denial-of-Service Attack on Itself

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By Wingston Sharon Wilson
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Your brain is running a legacy operating system (Caveman OS 1.0). It was optimized for:

  1. Avoiding Tigers.
  2. Finding Berries.
  3. Procreating.

It was not optimized for:

  1. Slack Notifications.
  2. Existential Dread about Climate Change.
  3. Being calm.

Debugging the Kernel

Meditation is not “Clearing your mind.” You cannot clear your mind. Meditation is attaching a debugger to your own consciousness. You look at the stack trace of your anger. You look at the memory leak of your anxiety. And you realize: “Oh, that’s just a process running in the background. I don’t have to listen to it.”

Who Needs This?

  • Skeptics: Who think meditation is for monks.
  • Overthinkers: Whose brains won’t shut up at 3am.
  • Parents: Who are one spilled juice box away from a meltdown.

Install the Patch

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