Mike M.

Founder @ REPS
Exploring out how to rebuild my attention, thinking, and memory 🧠

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@oldstackjournal How about something to help me finally stop forgetting the content I care about. Saved in seconds and comes back as crossword, trivia, etc based on space repetition science. Also with a few nice multiplayer feature. Replacing doomscrolling one idea at a time

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@tferriss The old "what gets measured gets managed" comes to mind on 2. Also what made Atomic Habits so popular

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@thedankoe Requires a very proactive effort nowadays to extract yourself from the whirlwind of 9-to-5, social media, and news that don't actually impact your life in any way yet give you real anxiety

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

Tech incumbents have a fundamental business model challenge. If you monetize on clipped attention, then there's a ceiling to how diverse your recs can be and the lowest common denominator wins (ie. ultra-mainstream, clickbait, AI slop, etc.)

[Adrian Nicholas Radu @anradu]

The next great consumer startups will redefine the user journey and personally I couldn't be more excited for what means for culture.
The regressive mimetic era is over. https://t.co/g5oFkWAAHq

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@andrewchen and may end up having to pay $17b in fines because it optimized too hard for it

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@thedankoe Always good to be multi-faceted but harder to spike on elements that don't share the same basic requirements

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@SahilBloom Trying to apply this to train my brain to consume long form content again after too many years of giving it the empty calories of short form

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@hubermanlab @MasudHusain Reminds me of reading Why We Sleep and how much it drove me to take my sleep more seriously (eg. glymphatic system clearing the tau protein @MasudHusain mentions) yet also realizing how much we still have to learn

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@shipranotes I call it vibe remembering... the loose description that comes to mind when I try to explain someone what it's about

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@deepanshuyadavx Do you know if Readwise's Kindle sync hit the same cap, or is this specific to the raw export?

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@TheAlienObserve @B_Goodness Glad to know I'm not the only one! I spend hours reading a book and a few years later I struggle to describe it to a friend... I now explain to my partner while I read, and I also create crosswords and games out of key concepts I want to remember

[Povilas Korop | AI Coding & Laravel Educator @PovilasKorop]

Isn't the same with old stuff in the apartment, until you move out and start from fresh clean room?

Or when you have bookmarks for a lot of articles to "read later", but when you buy a new computer and don't have bookmark backups, you forget they even existed?

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@AuthorGFAllen Me, mostly on vacations for some reason. Audio/e-book otherwise

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@shipranotes The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@aVanishingCycle Nice! How often do you revisit your notes?

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@shipranotes A great alternative is also to explain it to someone, be it friends or even AI. Just *believing* that you'll have to explain it later has been shown to increase retention

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@samwhyte late to the party, but I'm building https://t.co/FxS3f4wgzD to gamify your knowledge using the same spaced repetition science. you get trivia + crosswords and word games based on all the yadda yadda you save :)

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@Sood_Chris How do you keep it always up to date without getting overwhelmingly heavy?

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@fortelabs Part of making sure AI doesn't flatten us also happens *before* we even use it. Taking a guess, even if wrong, before we send a query leads to 10-27% better recall (pre-testing effect: https://t.co/7fgarcXtn8)

[Mike M. @mikes_attention]

@RodericDay Do you have a way to track the progress of your "thinking fitness"? Feels as important as physical, but relatively ignored or left to perception (maybe outside of meditation apps).