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I feel so bad when i cant hold conversations sorry for being boring as shit😭😭😭

This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.

Would you let a computer hijack your muscle movements if it increased your performance 35%? I totally would. Came across a really interesting ACM paper today (SplitBody), where subjects were given difficult multitasking challenges. Their mental load was “reduced” by having a computer electrically stimulate their arm instead. Bodily autonomy wise, it might feel a bit freaky, because you have the proprioception of your arm moving, but without the mental load of you moving it. I think it’s actually less creepy than it sounds, and I wish more research was poured in this area. Let me give an example. As a dancer myself, early on, aerials have a difficult initial mental barrier. The common way to learn is to essentially let your teacher control your muscle movements, repeating the overall motions, over and over again. By sort of “proving” the movement is possible (giving up autonomy!) the concept suddenly clicks, and you’ll “just get it”. I feel like there’s probably a lot of interesting biological barriers that could be overcome if you trained yourself to go past traditional limits by electrical stimulation first. Take a look at the Bannister effect!

I just want a few “Yes Friends” in my life. The people who default to “yes” when you ask them to show up for you. There to celebrate during the good times, but also to sit in the mud with you during the hard times. Real “Yes Friends” are hard to find. Cherish them. Be one.

10 best restaurants I’ve been to in NYC: Cocoron (LES) Sugarfish/Kazunori (chain) Barney Greengrass (UWS) Maz Mezcal (UES) Au Cheval (Chinatown) Veselka (EV) Gotham Pizza (UES) Carbone (GV) Buddhism (Chelsea) Peter Lugers (WB)

Most people take melatonin right before bed. That might be one of the worst times to take it. Melatonin isn't a sedative, it's a chronobiotic. It doesn't knock you out. It signals to your circadian clock that it's dark. And the effect it has on your sleep timing depends entirely on WHEN you take it. There's a concept called the Phase Response Curve. It shows that melatonin taken ~3 hours before your usual bedtime produces the largest phase advance, meaning it shifts your internal clock earlier, so you fall asleep sooner and wake up easier. But take it AT bedtime? You can actually push your clock in the wrong direction. That's a phase delay. You end up falling asleep later over time, not earlier. The sweet spot sits just before dim light melatonin onset, the point when your brain would naturally start releasing melatonin. For most people, that's roughly 3 hours before habitual bedtime. Timing > dose. Lewy et al. (1998), Burgess et al. (2010), and Challet et al., J Pineal Res (2024).