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2025-05-19 | 🧠 Conscious 😴 Rest

📚 Books

• ⏯️ Continuing 👤🧠 Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
• 🪄 Generated 🌡️⚙️ Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress

🤔 Performance Levers

• People intuit levers but push the wrong way.
• Struggling at work?
  • Intuition: work more → burnout → performance declines
  • Counterintuitive: work less → rest → performance increases
• Rest has negative (balancing) feedback.
  • The more you rest, the less you want.

graph TB  
    A[Work] -- ➕ --> E  
    E -- ➖ --> C[Performance]  
    D[Rest] -- ➖ --> E  
    E[Desire for Rest] -- ➕ --> D  
    A --> X[✖️]  
    C --> X  
    X --> Output