Ricky B.

🇯🇲. Learning and unlearning. @cubuffs official DJ. Steal The Scene Ent. @officialcoredjs 1 Peter 5:7

[Ricky B. @djambitiousboy]

#DJAmbitiousBoy

[Barstool Colorado @CUBarstool]

We have a DJ in the cafeteria now??😂

@DeionSanders really changing the culture 🙌

[Ricky B. @djambitiousboy]

Everyone needs someone like Mac in their circle fr 💯

[Dear World @dearantlers_]

"You're allowed to think about the worst case scenario, but you gotta do something about it"

[Tune, MBA, CISSP @CartuneNetwerk]

They dropped the pineapple sugars in the hood because it was the last untapped market for GLP-1s.

Cause the disease, sell the cure

[Ricky B. @djambitiousboy]

Guess it’s too much to ask for

[blue @bluewmist]

every time you replace “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
that’s neuroplasticity in real time.

[Ricky B. @djambitiousboy]

Might have to ball without you

[Ricky B. @djambitiousboy]

Yall gonna hear about me one way or another. DJ Ambitious Boy!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

75% of people can’t go 2 weeks without smartphone internet. Even when they volunteer for it.

467 people signed up to block mobile internet for 14 days. Motivated participants who actively wanted to change. Three out of four couldn’t do it. The researchers used a locked app called Freedom that made it physically impossible to re-enable the internet. Most people still found workarounds.

Here’s what’s happening at the neurological level. Every phone check triggers a small dopamine release. 186 checks per day means 186 micro-doses of dopamine, one every 5 minutes, training your brain to expect stimulation at a frequency that makes sustained attention on any single task almost impossible. Your prefrontal cortex, the part responsible for deep focus and executive function, is getting interrupted before it can enter the state where real cognitive work happens.

The 25% who made it through the full 2 weeks? Their sustained attention improved by the equivalent of reversing a decade of age-related cognitive decline. That’s a measurable, objective improvement on a validated attention task, not self-reported “I feel more focused.”

91% of all participants, including the ones who failed the full detox, still saw gains in mental health, well-being, or attentional capacity. Average screen time dropped from 5 hours to 2.5. They replaced that time with face-to-face interaction, movement, outdoor exposure, and 18 extra minutes of sleep per night. The reduction in depressive symptoms was larger than what multiple antidepressant studies have shown.

The protocol insight here matters more than the willpower narrative. You cannot discipline yourself out of a product built by thousands of engineers optimizing for one variable: time on screen. The 25% who succeeded had a system that removed the choice. They didn’t resist the urge. They eliminated the option.

Environment design drives the outcome. Partial detoxes produced nearly the same cognitive benefits as full ones, and participants were 4x more likely to sustain them. Charge the phone in a different room at night. Use app-level timers. Delete the 2-3 apps driving compulsive checks. Add friction between the impulse and the behavior.

You need a higher activation energy between you and the screen.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The antidote for brain rot is going back to longer formats: reading books, essays.

Reading will help you rebuild your focus and attention span.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

You don’t realize how weak our economy is right now.

If you have a job, hold onto it with your life.

Because if you get laid off, it’s going to take you months to find another one.

[ً @prinkasusa]

Your brain doesn't age because of time. It ages because of repetition. The more predictable your days become, the faster your neurons quiet down. Your brain builds neural pathways based on experience. New experiences create new connections. Repetition strengthens old ones. But when you repeat the same patterns for years, your brain stops building. That's why time feels faster as you age. Your brain stops encoding new memories. It just references old ones. A year at 40 feels shorter than a year at 10, because at 10, everything was new. At 40, everything is familiar. But neuroplasticity doesn't stop. You can still grow new neurons. You can still learn. You can still change. You just have to break the loop. Your brain will wake up. And time will slow down again.

[Ricky B. @djambitiousboy]

Y’all got it man, y’all got it.

[COWBOY COOK @CowboyCook_]

Smile thru it all…

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian who was murdered as an enemy of the State. Anything else is just a lie.

[Caleb @CalebFromX]

“I watch my father walk back in my life and it clears up a hurt”

This is THE most clever way I’ve ever heard a rapper express the pain of their father walking out on them.

Sheeeeshhh — J. Cole’s ability to write is insane dawg 😮‍💨🔥

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

A $100,000 salary in 1990 would be more than $250,000 in today's dollars.

A $100,000 salary today would be less than $40,000 in 1990.

[Barefoot Student @BarefootStudent]

35% of entry-level jobs require 3+ years of experience, per Forbes.

[princess ౨ৎ @puppetgrl_]

yeah, this tracks. a lot of our thoughts are uncontrollable nonsense. we receive thoughts that we don’t even want to think almost as if these thoughts are automated/programmed due to subconscious fears based on past experiences & beliefs. recognize that, deny them, rise above ♡

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

LMFAO this is going well so far

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

I'm 100% serious when I say companies who do this should:

A) Be banned from job hiring sites
B) Get fined for doing it