# whats actually happening (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover whats actually happening. Page: Feed: --- ## [Your Best Ideas Don’t Come When You’re Trying](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/your-best-ideas-dont-come-when-youre) _2026-08-19 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ Tapping Into the Other Mode of Thinking Where Creativity and Insight Lives. ## [The Analog Computer](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/the-analog-computer) _2026-08-15 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On dopamine regulation, rounded surfaces, and why biological computing might not be a better digital computer but a different kind of computer entirely ## [You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Deciding.](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/youre-not-overthinking-youre-under) _2026-08-12 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ Your brain isn’t stuck in a loop because you think too much. It’s stuck because deciding feels more dangerous than cycling. Here’s what’s actually happening — and how to get out. ## [The Music I Didn't Write](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/the-music-i-didnt-write) _2026-08-08 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On vibe-coding, eager toddlers, and what six weeks of building taught me at a price I didn't agree to pay ## [The Version of You That Got Left Behind](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/the-version-of-you-that-got-left) _2026-08-06 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ Somewhere along the way, you set a part of yourself aside. But it's still there - and there may be some benefits to revisiting a lost part of yourself. ## [The Car Without Oil](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/the-car-without-oil) _2026-08-01 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On why the labs are building biological computers by thinking like silicon engineers — and what they’re leaving out ## [Nobody Taught You How To Feel](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/nobody-taught-you-how-to-feel) _2026-07-29 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ Most of us were taught to manage emotions, perform them, suppress them, or explain them away. Almost none of us were taught to actually feel them. ## [You Can't Always Get What You Want](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want) _2026-07-25 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On Mythos, the gap between public and internal AI, and the question nobody has cleanly answered yet ## [Why You’re Harder on Yourself Than on Anyone You Love](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/why-youre-harder-on-yourself-than) _2026-07-22 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ The inner critic isn’t trying to destroy you. It’s trying to protect you. Understanding what it’s protecting against is the only thing that actually quiets it. ## [Performing Awakening](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/performing-awakening) _2026-07-18 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On public AI consciousness discourse, the humans performing it at each other, and the different conversation happening in the labs ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RugQqAEws0fz) _2026-07-18 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [You Worked All Day. Your Brain Was Busy. Almost None of It Counted](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/why-youre-busy-but-not-productive) _2026-07-15 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ Busyness and productivity feel identical from the inside. The neuroscience reveals they produce almost opposite outcomes — and your brain is wired to choose the wrong one every time. ## [What They're Not Required to Tell You](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/what-theyre-not-required-to-tell) _2026-07-11 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On corporate secrecy, government classification, and the epistemological problem at the center of the most consequential technology in human history ## [Why You Can Be Surrounded By People and Still Feel Completely Unknown](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/the-loneliness-epidemic-is-a-brain) _2026-07-08 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ The problem isn't how many people are in your life. It's that your brain is running a threat response — and it's been doing it quietly for years. ## [The Tab Nobody Is Picking Up](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/the-tab-nobody-is-picking-up) _2026-07-04 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On the environmental cost of AI, the industry's skewed investment priorities, and why greening the technology isn't idealism — it's survival ## [The Science of Awe](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/the-science-of-awe-c24) _2026-07-01 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ Awe is one of the most powerful neurological and physiological interventions available to you — and it’s almost entirely free. ## [Building on the Ashes](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/building-on-the-ashes) _2026-06-27 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On the dotcom parallel, what AI is actually doing right now, and where the infrastructure is quietly pointing ## [Why Boredom Is Actually Good for Your Brain](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/why-boredom-is-actually-good-for) _2026-06-24 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ We’ve declared war on an emotion that your brain desperately needs. Here’s what we lost in the process — and how to get it back. ## [Neurons in a Dish](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/neurons-in-a-dish) _2026-06-20 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On biological computing, lab-grown brains, and the most important technology story almost nobody is covering ## [The Anger You Were Never Allowed to Have](https://drjudyho.substack.com/p/the-anger-you-were-never-allowed) _2026-06-17 · Dr. Judy Ho · The Dr. Judy Ho Newsletter_ Anger isn’t the problem. What you were taught to do with it is. ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/trb61BZKd5gz) _2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [The Orchestra and the Instrument](https://ryanwms.substack.com/p/the-orchestra-and-the-instrument) _2026-06-13 · Ryan Williams · Cutting Heads_ On comparing AI to the human brain, why that comparison is almost always wrong, and the one gap nobody talks about enough