My Internet Brain

I scan information on my phone frequently

My brain goes wherever that information takes me

Thinking for myself in depth is something I do on occasions rare

If I think of anything, more information is always there

For me to find through a quick search on the internet

I scan through information fast, but a deeper understanding I rarely get

My “internet brain” appears to be

Incapable of focusing on anything, increasingly

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To reclaim my lost focus, the strategy that works for me

Is to read a physical book, when I am reading I am free

From the mind-wandering and task-switching that are near-constant

When a device in the vicinity is ever present

That is the only way I counter my internet brain

That is why reading books keeps me sane