My legs are screaming for a break after many hours of strolling around the city.

I'll be taking the the rest of Sunday to relax, so to keep you company, here's today's Cooldown, a quick gloss of the interesting things I found throughout the week:

1. How I felt when ChatGPT was down this week.
2. A quote that pretty much sums up everything I learned in therapy.
3. The best articles I read this week

How I felt when ChatGPT was down this week:

Trust me, all my work plans for that morning went down the drain 🤣

Quote that pretty much sums up everything I learned in therapy

If you've managed to learn the same just from reading the quote alone, then I've saved you thousands of dollars of therapy.

You're welcome 😀

The best articles I read this week

​This is My Most Expensive Habit​

Anxiety - it's my most expensive habit too.

It doesn’t cost a single dollar, but it’s robbed me of countless hours I could’ve spent being at peace in those very moments I needed them.

​Rigorous thinking: No lazy thinking​

I'm gonna share a real example of this tomorrow but what frustrated me a lot my previous jobs was that lazy thinking at work would often be the default.

For better or worse - my hyperactive mind just can’t sit still; I am always thinking and anything that would force me to NOT think would cause me a lot of suffering.

I'll say that rigorous thinking isn’t prioritised enough nowadays, not in schools, not in general. Social media acting as a constant distraction also makes lazy thinking the norm which I hope will be reversed sometime in the next decade. Maybe new AIs will pop up everywhere and we'll be forced to think and communicate with our devices instead of just scrolling on them.

Nicholas Ng