{"id":1830,"date":"2025-12-05T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:35:02","slug":"do-you-phone-in-your-brain-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/2025\/12\/05\/do-you-phone-in-your-brain-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you phone-in your brain power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1531\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646.png 646w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646-480x297.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251205-WA0006_bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1831\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251205-WA0006_bw.jpg 485w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251205-WA0006_bw-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251205-WA0006_bw-480x544.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong><em><strong><em>Maybe it\u2019s an age thing..<\/em><\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p><p>\u2026or the fact that my copywriter brain has spent millions of hours crafting different combos of ways to describe<em> stuff <\/em>over the years but \u2013 when you\u2019ve written the same-ish sentences for decades you can get what I call,<em> scribe fatigue.<\/em><br><br>Add the oily word salad of AI mediocrity to the world\u2019s writing and I wanna eat my lashes just to try something new, ease the apathy perhaps.<br><br>Where are the dangerous words? The reckless descriptions of lust, political discourse, a roiling, angry ocean even on a polite summer\u2019s day?<br><br>I wanna read and write words that arrest the norm, ya know? Collect powder-keg-laced verbs that detonate the droll and crucify cliches. See what I\u2019m doing here? It\u2019s not perfect. Probably even a little try hard too. No problem.<br><br>I\u2019ll wear the criticism like a vintage McQueen and strut my stuff down that catwalk. Because in my own wordy way I\u2019m fu**ing with the bots who make it their business to rot your neural pathways and mine.<br><br>Hand on my heart, all rhythm and some blues, this Phylosophy has been written in the spirit of scribe-y abandon. To write on the edge of what\u2019s expected, to view expression like teetering on a tightrope, way, way up high, screw the altitude, look down, get scared. Embarrassed. Coy about my questionable turns of phrase.<br><br>Dance like no one\u2019s watching. Write like no one\u2019s judging.<br><br>Switch on the grey that matters and pluck something surprising outta your arsenal. Yes.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1535\" style=\"width:100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature.jpeg 508w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature-300x266.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature-480x425.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/figure><p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>\u00a9 Phyllis Foundis 2025<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it\u2019s an age thing&#8230; \u2026or the fact that my copywriter brain has spent millions of hours crafting different combos of ways to describe stuff over the years but \u2013 when you\u2019ve written the same-ish sentences for decades you can get what I call, scribe fatigue. Add the oily word salad of AI mediocrity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}