Comment by larodi
The impact of writing is immensely undervalued. Even writing with a keyboard or screen is a lot more than non writing. Exercising writing on any topic is still beneficial, and you can find many psychologists recommend having a daily blog of some sort to help people observe themselves from a side. The same goes for speaking, public speech if u want, and therapeutic daily acting-playing which is also overlooked.
I’d love to see some sort of study on people who actively particulate writing their stuff on social media and those who don’t.
If u want to spare your mind from GPT numbness - write or copy what it tells you to do by hand, do not abandon this process.
Or just write code, programs, essays, poems for fun. Trust me - it is and you’ll get smarter and more confident. GPT is a very dangerous convenience gadget, is not going away like sugar or Netflix, or obesity or long commutes … but similarly dosage and counter measures are essential to cope with the side-effects.
Similarly, the impact of white-boarding-type activities is undervalued. When discussing problems with a viewpoint, a quick whiteboard usually gets at some easy-to-find underlying issues that others can understand, rather than it devolving into positional framings.