Masonou Kyriakos

[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.

[Masonou Kyriakos @masonouky]

Cappadocia has many underground cities with the largest ones going 18 levels deep and could host 20,000+ people during raids

They started ~1,200BC and evolved for over 1,000 years

They included rooms, kitchens, wineries, animal stables and more

Impressive!

[Masonou Kyriakos @masonouky]

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[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

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[Masonou Kyriakos @masonouky]

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[Lina Seiche @LinaSeiche]

The problem with modern leadership is that many of us have actually never experienced it.

I didn’t realize this until I saw the difference first-hand. Where I come from (Europe), it’s normal to hate your government, and we regularly feel pretty embarrassed by the people who run our countries. We’re so used to the state throwing obstacles our way that we forget it should actually be the other way around.

Now I’m on my third year in El Salvador, and it makes perfect sense to me why the media would regularly belittle @nayibbukele’s achievements. He makes people turn around and ask their leaders why they can’t do half of what he does with 2x, 3x, 20x the resources. El Salvador is proof that crime and regression are a deliberate choice by the state.

Everything changes when your surroundings get progressively better. You subconsciously adapt your time horizon, your risk appetite, your commitment to the world before you.

Public servants should serve the people, not expect to be served by the people. Those at the helm must work their very hardest, because their work defines the opportunities for everyone else.

The fact that this is exceedingly rare doesn’t make it any less true; it only means that if we do find it, we should really seize it.

[Masonou Kyriakos @masonouky]

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[Masonou Kyriakos @masonouky]

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[Masonou Kyriakos @masonouky]

@3orovik When you are the brother in law🙂

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