De-Brainrot Vacations: How I Spent My Time Off Relearning Math and Physics
A software engineer shares how he combated 'brainrot'—the mental fog from endless scrolling and AI-assisted work—by spending his vacations in the countryside reading books, doing math exercises, and relearning physics. He describes his journey from devouring books in university to struggling with distractions, and how he found joy again in learning for its own sake, working through calculus and physics textbooks.
I’m not sure how this could affect my career, specially with AI, everything career-related in Software Engineering and Data Engineering is way fuzzier than it used to be 8 years ago.