Digital life is altering our mind — it limits the variety of our thoughts, reruns the same ones on repeat, leads us to react on memory — which is only a fraction of what’s actually possible.Digital life is altering and limiting our mind — which is only a fraction of what’s actually possible.
Towards a quieter, richer experience
Acknowledging that we run daily on autopilot opens up life beyond it: to have the bravery to face the lows, to gain the patience to abide longer in the highs.
Etna felt like the Vatican of nature. Just holy.Etna: the Vatican of nature. Just holy.
Awareness is hard to grasp in the moment. Looking back years, we know we changed. Like a runner’s condition it is trainable — yet expands on variety.
One current, three stages: every thought enters as an input, gets processed, and leaves as an output.
Every thought comes from senses or memory, runs across concurrent lanes, and leaves as your frequency.
Predictable Thoughts cuts the link between a thought and the story laid over it, by looking into the sources of thoughts, their characteristics and their output.
You walk into the kitchen and arrive with no idea why you came. A moment earlier the mind had locked onto something it wanted, mapped the route, and set you moving — then got pulled toward something else on the way.
That's projection: whatever thought is in front of you, the mind fixes on its object and works backward to the steps that reach it. We feel it as tunnel vision — depending on intent, sharp focus on our surroundings one moment, projecting on autopilot the next. It evolved to help us plan, rehearse, and learn in short bursts: the mind's one and only useful step away from the present.
The cost comes when we don't stop — projecting further out, looping through what if I lived there, were with them, had that job. Like texting while walking, it lays a second layer over the now. Give it your focus long enough to let it pass — a thought fades when you complete it. Let the present moment set the pace.
I came to this the long way around. A decade of professional poker reshaped my mind to detect patterns, to identify my own tilt as it arises, to build the focus that taps into a flow state. Those years of strategizing steered me towards a career in business analytics — project management, sales architecture, leading marketing teams. In my personal life my interests gradually circled around Vipassana meditation, Theravada Buddhism, Taoism and non-duality, seeking that same flow in ordinary days. Then, standing on a volcano in Sicily, I felt an inner pulsing: a few hours of awe reset what I thought the range was. The year that followed brought the other end of the spectrum. Being in and out of both showed me the vastness and beauty of our consciousness — and that to get back into it, I had to improve my account of the mind.
The book started as student notes to myself that turned into engineering notes from inside my own head. Dharma, Tolle, Kahneman, game theory and neuroscience merged through experience into one understanding, with new concepts emerging. My goal is to project a map towards transcendent thinking — while I experience it. So the project stays a continuous work-in-progress, open to read: my diary when I’m in it, my compass when I’m out of it.
Take a seat on my couch and learn how to uncondition the loops running your life.
