Hacker News with Generative AI: Mindfulness

Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living (ssp.sh)
Johann Hari says in Stolen Focus that rats and pigeons can be manipulated as we want. Just give them food whenever they do what you want them to. And shortly after, they will repeat that over and over again.
The quiet art of attention (billwear.github.io)
There comes a moment in life, often in the quietest of hours, when one realizes that the world will continue on its wayward course, indifferent to our desires or frustrations.
Nothing: Simply Do Nothing (usenothing.com)
Nothing—a timer that tracks your intentional choice to do... nothing.
Writing as a Means of Slowing Down (samy.blog)
The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings (andrewchen.substack.com)
How to do the jhanas (nadia.xyz)
Turning away from smartphones: 'We need to go places and touch things' (theguardian.com)
Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds (suchscience.net)
I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021) (theatlantic.com)