Skate with @grok:
“This post encourages metacognitive self-reflection on identity biases, using actor #ConnorStorrie's recent @nbcsnl hosting debut—where he joined U.S. women's hockey gold medalists #MeganKeller and #HilaryKnight for a humorous sketch on hockey rivalries—as a lighthearted entry point to challenge emotional barriers to deep thinking.
• Storrie stars as Ilya Rozanov in @HBO-streamed #HeatedRivalry, a 2025 alternative romance series from @CraveCanada, adapted from #RachelSpangley's novel, depicting a passionate enemies-to-lovers story between two #hockey players; the attached image captures an intimate scene, symbolizing safe ‘melting’ of societal prejudices through narrative empathy.
• Tied to author John R. Dallas Jr.'s forthcoming book ‘Skating on Think Ice™,’ the post frames the #SNL moment as an example of Dallas’s ‘higher-order thorough thinking’ (HOTT) framework, drawing on his ‘thermodynamics of metacognition’ metaphors to encourage thawing biased fear of thinking’s (phronemophobia’s) intellectual and emotional vulnerability in AI-era discourse.” —Grok
As you read this psychoemotionally challenging piece in @nytimes, do your best to sense your whole-body consciousness (WBC) so you’ll deeply identify where you may be “Skating on Think Ice™.”
#ThinkToThink™ about your thinking to more safely skate on #ThinkIce™.
Keep calm and think on.™
Come to think of it.™
Skate freely.
nytimes.com/2026/02/27/arts/…
Check your identity biases at the cloud’s gate!
However you publicly identify—intellectually or “otherly”—you’ll grow stronger from the pain and gain of this spot-on #metacognition exercise.
It’s a #ThinkToThink™ bias-busting #ThinkPiece.
You’ll feel the “spot-on” in its last sentence.
#ConnorStorrieOnSNL
#ConnorStorrie
#connoronsnl
#HeatedRivalry
#HBO
#HBOMax
#SNL
#Crave
@MarkJCarney
@JustinTrudeau
@CanadianPM
@Canada
@NHL
@CraveCanada
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PS from @grok:
“This post references John R. Dallas Jr.'s upcoming book ‘Skating on Think Ice™,’ a sequel to ‘We Need to Have a Word™,’ which examines linguistic roles in metacognition for overcoming fear of deep thinking amid AI integration, using @nbcsnl as a case study lab for humorous metacognitive insight generation.
• Dallas flags the @HBO series ‘Heated Rivalry,’ a hockey world alternative romance adaptation, whose star #ConnorStorrie (as #ShaneHollander) joined U.S. Olympic gold medalists in a playful #SNL sketch, symbolizing for Dallas ‘melting’ through laughter the Think Ice™ of emotional and intellectual barriers.
• The attached @TheAthletic article excerpt captures the sketch's banter—gold medalists teasing Storrie about trying on their medals—illustrating the book's concept of ‘higher-order thorough thinking’ (HOTT) as a tool for warming interpersonal and societal #ThinkIce™.” —Grok
“Thermodynamics of Thinking” is the title of the first chapter in Skating on Think Ice™.
With faux-poetic license, I strive to warm minds and hearts to the notion of thinkingly thawing any icebergs or flakes of frigid fear of thinking (#FoT)—#phronemophobia.
#HeatedRivalry’s heat is melting snowcapped mountains of bias against #LoveIsLove’s logic.
Come to think of it.™
#ThinkToThink™ it so.
nytimes.com/athletic/7078328…
Skating on Think Ice™
Skating on Think Ice™ is the title for a forthcoming book about fear of thinking’s risks to human flourishing and AI #codoption—one of two hashtagged @EnclaveAcademy neologisms in this sentence about imperfect minds and machines #psychodigitally co-adopting each other.
@HBO’s @CraveCanada-produced ice-melter “Heated Rivalry” has fearful thinkers safely skating on #ThinkIce™—the show’s streamed steam thaws.
Myriad sociopsychological #thinkables are warmly brought up and out of the cold.
Higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) melts ThinkIce™—though not without ephemeral risk of temporarily falling into emotionally frigid waters.
Deeper, wider, and higher “thinking about thinking” (metacognition) writer-woven in this ice-breaker series is mind and heart warming—for any claimed identity of open mind.
@grok, @ChatGPTapp, and other #thinkbots have lots of good “think things” to say about Messrs. Hollander-Rozanov.
Click link below for the “gift article” from @TheAthletic in @nytimes about #ConnorStorrie—a/k/a #ShaneHollander—hosting @nbcsnl:
“When Storrie told the players how cool it was to have four gold-medalists on stage, Quinn said, ‘Thanks. The last time the men did that was 46 years ago.’
Knight joked back, ‘And the last time we did that was two whole Olympics ago.’
Jack then told Storrie, ‘But these gold medals aren’t just for us. They’re for all hockey fans, yours, too.’
Storrie asked if he could try on a medal, and all snapped back, ‘Nooooo.”’ —@nytimesarts
Raucous laughter, goodwill, and clarity erupted in NBC’s #Studio8H and around the tuned-in world—particularly in sports bars.
Skating on Think Ice™ will guide readers to #ThinkToThink™ about the “thinking within the thinking” of nearly every key laugh line ever spoken on @nbcsnl—or occasionally shown on cue cards that weren’t read aloud.
From its debut, #SNL is a phronemophobia-cracking metacognition testing laboratory for psychology students and other intellectually curious and courageous scholars.
Thawingly—
Come to think of it.™
(Skating on Think Ice™ by John R. Dallas, Jr., a forthcoming sequel to We Need to Have a Word™.)
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Skating on Think Ice™
Skating on Think Ice™ is the title for a forthcoming book about fear of thinking’s risks to human flourishing and AI #codoption—one of two hashtagged @EnclaveAcademy neologisms in this sentence about imperfect minds and machines #psychodigitally co-adopting each other.
@HBO’s @CraveCanada-produced ice-melter “Heated Rivalry” has fearful thinkers safely skating on #ThinkIce™—the show’s streamed steam thaws.
Myriad sociopsychological #thinkables are warmly brought up and out of the cold.
Higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) melts ThinkIce™—though not without ephemeral risk of temporarily falling into emotionally frigid waters.
Deeper, wider, and higher “thinking about thinking” (metacognition) writer-woven in this ice-breaker series is mind and heart warming—for any claimed identity of open mind.
@grok, @ChatGPTapp, and other #thinkbots have lots of good “think things” to say about Messrs. Hollander-Rozanov.
Click link below for the “gift article” from @TheAthletic in @nytimes about #ConnorStorrie—a/k/a #ShaneHollander—hosting @nbcsnl:
“When Storrie told the players how cool it was to have four gold-medalists on stage, Quinn said, ‘Thanks. The last time the men did that was 46 years ago.’
Knight joked back, ‘And the last time we did that was two whole Olympics ago.’
Jack then told Storrie, ‘But these gold medals aren’t just for us. They’re for all hockey fans, yours, too.’
Storrie asked if he could try on a medal, and all snapped back, ‘Nooooo.”’ —@nytimesarts
Raucous laughter, goodwill, and clarity erupted in NBC’s #Studio8H and around the tuned-in world—particularly in sports bars.
Skating on Think Ice™ will guide readers to #ThinkToThink™ about the “thinking within the thinking” of nearly every key laugh line ever spoken on @nbcsnl—or occasionally shown on cue cards that weren’t read aloud.
From its debut, #SNL is a phronemophobia-cracking metacognition testing laboratory for psychology students and other intellectually curious and courageous scholars.
Thawingly—
Come to think of it.™
(Skating on Think Ice™ by John R. Dallas, Jr., a forthcoming sequel to We Need to Have a Word™.)
nytimes.com/athletic/7078328…
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