Debanjan

egolifter by day, vibeCoder by night 🎧

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

dexter s4 e9 gotta be one of the most intense episodes of television history

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

@JeffBezos @grok context?

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

@itsFingHarsh

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

life is better when u live it in TPP mode rather than living it in FPP mode

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

in case of relationships, regret is better than living a mentally draining life

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

true that

[Tathagata Roy @tathagata2]

The previous government’s act of naming new Metro stations after prominent people IS CONFUSING AND MUST BE UNDONE. It is the state govt’s prerogative to name the stations and they have misused it, presumably at the last Chief Minister’s whims.

Stations must be named after localities. The names must be short and easy to remember. Some names are totally crazy, like ‘Swapnabhor’, in New Town.

It is also relevant that the station next to Jadu Babu’s Bazar, earlier named ‘Bhabanipur’, was stupidly renamed ‘Netaji Bhaban’. In fact Netaji Bhaban is quite far away from this station and much closer to the next station, that is Rabindra Sadan. @paulagnimitra1

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

@tapasadhikary haha

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

@viraj_sheth lack of options

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

@OrevaZSN yea we need to talk abt it

[Striver | Building takeUforward @striver_79]

Don’t cry if you need a few days to prepare when an interview opportunity comes up.

If you are not confident about giving one in the next hour when an opportunity comes up, you are already behind the top-tier talent.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The brain fog and distraction are downstream symptoms of a dysregulated nervous system.

Here’s what’s actually happening neurologically.

Every time you pick up your phone, you get a micro-hit of dopamine. Dopamine is the anticipation chemical. Your brain releases it before you find anything interesting, not after. So the scroll itself becomes the reward loop, regardless of what you see.

This creates a specific pattern:

Low-grade stimulation → dopamine release → temporary relief from baseline anxiety → tolerance builds → need more stimulation → phone check every 30 minutes → phone check every 10 minutes → phone check while eating, phone check in bathroom, phone check before your feet hit the floor in the morning.

The brain fog is your prefrontal cortex running on empty. That part of your brain handles attention, planning, and impulse control. It requires stable dopamine levels to function. When you’re constantly spiking and crashing dopamine through variable reward schedules (which is exactly what social media feeds are), your baseline dopamine drops. You feel foggy because your executive function is literally impaired.

Huberman’s protocol addresses this at the mechanism level.

In the morning, delay phone use for 60-90 minutes after waking. This allows cortisol to peak naturally, which sets your circadian rhythm and prevents you from hijacking your morning dopamine with artificial stimulation.

Throughout the day, introduce deliberate boredom. No phone during meals. No phone during walks. No phone while waiting. This sounds like torture because it is, at first. You’re letting your baseline dopamine reset by removing the constant micro-hits.

Your dopamine receptors downregulate when overstimulated. You need roughly 30-48 hours without high-dopamine activities for measurable receptor resensitization. Receptor density actually recovers when you stop flooding the system.

Cold exposure accelerates this. 30-60 seconds of cold water increases baseline dopamine by 250% for hours afterward, without the crash that follows phone use.

You’re fighting a nervous system that has been trained to expect stimulation every few minutes. Retrain the system first. The behavior change follows.

[Carter @CarterKoWang]

every generation has had its escapes. our grandparents had television, radio, and magazines. humans have always sought distraction through entertainment. but ours are different. those older mediums had natural stopping points. the show ended, the magazine ran out of pages, and you had to physically go somewhere to gamble. the slop factory in our pockets never close. it follows us to bed, to the bathroom, to the dinner table. we don’t need to seek it out, it’s sprinkled into every idle moment of our day. even now, i’m riding an uber home. and what am i doing? scrolling X lol.

[conduct|r @conductr_]

we are overstimulated and we don’t even notice. netflix while eating. reels in the bathroom. music while cooking. podcasts on walks. we consume by default, not by intention. you keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. they give you space to think and create. that’s when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. leave some room

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

@gaxrav true, men dont need all these insta mental health influencers therapy

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

true, absolutely true!!

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Q: "What's one invention that's made us worse, not better?"

ELON: "Maybe short form video. It's rotting people's brains."

[Rainbow Bodied 🫀 @RainbowBodied]

I don't know what you're going through but I'd highly recomend:

> Cut out literally all activities from your life besides work, eating/sleep and working out for 2 or 3 weeks

> Do nothing during that free time, nothing, quite literally sit there nothing else allowed. When I say nothing I mean NOTHING. Cross your legs, breathing and blinking are fine but no other movement is allowed until it's time to eat, sleep, work, or do something like get food or set a timer

> I'm really serious do NOTHING

~Day 6 it'll be solved, pretty much any and all lack of percieved X, Y, or Z (mental clarity, will, etc) that you think you're lacking is there you're probably just overstimulated

It really is that easy!

[Debanjan @JanaReal_]

@RainbowBodied note to self

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

Set aside an extended period of time for you to appear like a loser to everyone else.

Be calm and comfortable in it.

You’re not locking in, you’re not planning something secret and huge, you’re not working on anything major.

Be completely ok with the external judgements and feeling that you’re behind.

Don't perform. Don’t justify. Don’t brag. Even when you can - don’t make excuses. Just hold it.

Observe your desire to show off, notice what makes you feel the urge to over explain - why you feel unacceptable to yourself.

This sounds small, but it will fundamentally change you forever.

It will allow you to hold the big things properly when you actually advance.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

there's an epidemic of fake learning. duolingo, tiktok, youtube. it's all entertainment cleverly disguised as education. real learning is hard. it's uncomfortable. if it feels 'fun', you probably aren't learning anything.