Metathinking

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Metathinking means focusing on and thinking about how to think. It is very illuminating if seldom practiced, being aware of doing it. It becomes sick and harmful when it becomes the primary focus of one’s thinking, meaning that it becomes relentlessly impossible to avoid thinking about thinking. It seems absurd, but I experienced this.

The effect of metathinking is something similar to what Ivan Ilic’s mind goes through near his death.

…C’è poi questa cosa, che quando hai un pensiero che ti ossessiona tutto lo rinforza e l’assillo diventa persecuzione. Durante quei giorni di vagabondaggio Andrea abita un mondo gravido; per strada milioni di neonati in carrozzina e donne incite e cartelloni pubblicitari di indumenti pre-maman, e ovunque si volta ci sono asili nido e scuole materne. E dunque ero io, pensa…

Fabio Geda, <a href=https://tommi.space/se-la-vita-che-salvi-e-la-tua title='“Se la vita che salvi è la tua„ – tommi.space'>Se la vita che salvi è la tua</a>

While building Pöuli, I am realizing that I am experiencing the strongest symptom of metathinking I ever experienced so far: I am procrastinating reading and notetaking for XPUB ad libitum, because I have been waiting for this tool to be ready, finally, but the time never comes, and it will never come. Wow I just got an idea for a mantra of wisdom:

All Earthly code is unfinished code.

E dimmi com’è
E dimmi com’è
E dimmi com’è
E dimmi com’è
Non sono stato mai a parlare per ore
Senza pensare che lo sto facendo

E dimmi cos’è
E dimmi cos’è
E dimmi cos’è
La vita veramente

— Fulminacci, La Vita Veramente (2019)


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