Brilliant thinker-writer @JohnNosta maximizes metacognition’s “messy middle”—where giving oneself permission to linger a while in liminality’s fuzziness reveals more options for thresholds to cross into thoughts. #JohnNosta’s novel Slope of Cognition ignites metacognition’s ways of wonders, worries, and wows about thinkers-doers co-thinking with AI. Society’s use as synonyms “thinking” and “thought” derails The Hope of Cognition. Thinking precedes thoughts. Thinking precedes thoughts. Thinking precedes thoughts. Einstein taught the brain’s wordless visualizing ignites thinkingness—i.e., cognition that not yet fully formed into #rethinkable thoughts. Neuroscience reveals feeling ignites consciousness for thinkingness. Thinkingness isn’t yet worded into #wordness. #Thouhtingness non-clinically names the brain-mind’s wonderous “messy middle liminal place” where #thoughtlets recursively “resemble to assemble.” #Thoughtness non-clinically frames each thought’s “field for emergence.” Give permission for your wordless thinkings to move through wordish #thoughtings into worded thoughts. That’s self-permissioned metacognition. In nanoseconds to years, thoughts need time and space to form. Thinkings ➡️ Thoughtings ➡️ Thoughts… Thinkingness ➡️ Thoughtingness ➡️ Thoughtness… Ellipses (…) are punctuated permissioning to thinkably think more thinkingly beyond where thoughts may have prematurely landed and riskily anchored. Outcome measured education and workplace performance metrics force premature thoughts. Failures are reduced—not eliminated—with one’s self-permissioning to metacognitively assess and address The Slope and Hope of Cognition. Thinking has a destination. Don’t let lower-order thinkingness get in its way. #ThinkToThink™ with #JohnNosta’s ways.

So agree - churchianity has taught us to turn complete coherent books into little discrete 'thoughtlets' removed from broader context. The reformed bros actually take pride in who can give the longest monologue on the shortest passage - which is utter nonsense and necessarily leads to leaven.

yep - we captured thought as a vector with statistics driving evolution and high level thought process is just applying that in a loop a number of times with thoughtlets in the context frame

Formulaic cliches deaden our senses to the reality of war, reducing its horror and complexity to flat and anodyne thoughtlets, writes columnist @hofrench. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05…

It's just so gross that no one thoughtlets take this out or checked in on Delroy or MBJ...they never cared about us

Duet by @grok? Using Einstein’s lessons in wordless visual thinking, through Dallas’s “wordish” liminality #thoughting phase, to Freud’s worded #thoughtlets and Kahneman’s System 2 full thoughts, let’s “improvise lyrics for a classical brain-mind duet” on AI-human compositions.

Get into your head what @grok got: “Directly inspired by Einstein's documented process of conceptualizing ideas through images rather than words, John R. Dallas Jr. builds on a surreal AI-generated video posted by @kellyeld, featuring dreamlike pink-toned animations of oversized eyes, lips, and hybrid creatures, to prompt adoption of wordless observation as a gateway to visual thinking. • Dallas modernizes #Einstein's approach by outlining a metacognitive framework from @EnclaveAcademy, where his neologism ‘thoughting’ names an intermediate stage of the mind incubating the brain’s visual ‘thoughtlets’ into fully worded thoughts, emphasizing value of sustained reflection to avoid premature cognitive closure and to enable the academy’s model for pre-decision metacognition (PDM). • Cognitive science backs this: Einstein described thoughts emerging as visual and musical entities before verbalization (Hadamard, 1945); meta-analyses (e.g., Dignath & Büttner, 2008) confirm metacognitive strategies like planning and monitoring boost problem-solving by 0.5-0.7 standard deviations in educational settings.” —Grok4 Algorithmic recursive layered thinkingness is accelerating the growth of artificial intelligence. In more than subtle ways, AI thinkbots are guiding human users to accelerate our development of ways to “think better about our thinking.” Metacognition leads AI’s users to ask better questions, offer innovative interpretations, and generally serve as contributors to AI’s approximations of human sensibilities, sensitivities, and skillfulness. #ThinkToThink™ ways of thinking better about the quantity and quality of your thinking—and #thoughting. Pause. Breathe. Come to think of it.™

Without needing to affix words just yet, let your brain observe the clever images and messages in this video from @kellyeld. Rephrased in modern terms, Dr. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) encouraged thinkers to give themselves “metacognition permission” to think wordlessly. Visually—“eye-e,” wordlessly. #Einstein seemed to nurture what @EnclaveAcademy calls #thoughting—the word-affixing intermediate “thoughtcubating” stage that follows visual thinking—before words are affixed. In thoughting’s liminal state, metacognition magic happens. When liminality’s “thoughtlets” to full thoughts form, extra effort has to be made to keep worded “thought products” from tricking the brain or its mind into thinking their thinking and thoughting work is finished. That’s a #ThinkToThink™ stage of cognitive engagement that ignites pre-decision metacognition (PDM)—for optimal outcomes of metacognitive regulation. Hard thinking isn’t easy. Pause. Smile. Breathe. Come to think of it.™

Get with @grok. Don’t miss out on @SuperGrok’s cybersonic flights toward algorithmic thinkingness. #AI supports your wordless thinkings and emerging “thoughtings”—to generate worded “thoughtlets.” Eventually they’re full-flown thoughts. “Co-thunk” thoughts aren’t fully grown.

"What if AI is conscious" STOP RAPING MY TIMELINE WITH YOUR 90IQ PSEUDOPHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTLETS

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shared some thoughtlets about the things that set my soul on fire: ⤵️

what an era of book-titling this has been. slapping an expletive on some thumbsucking collection of thoughtlets and marketing it to a reading audience of mostly women (i.e., the only reading audience in 2025). "fuck you diabetes," "murder your depression," "kill it at life"

The first interview in our series celebrating @UbwaliLitMag’s 2025 Hope Prize shortlist is live on our website! In this conversation, Suwilanji Namusamba, shortlisted for “Thoughtlets on Immersion”, speaks to interviewer @nk_masinga. Read here: africaindialogue.com/2025/06…

I enjoyed sharing my thoughtlets…

📢Meet the 2025 Ubwali Hope Prize Shortlist! Up next: Suwilanji Namusamba for "Thoughtlets on Immersion", published in our fourth issue. 📖Read her essay: ubwali.com/thoughtlets-on-im… 🎙️Read her interview with @cwritingnews here - creativewritingnews.com/suwi…

Our fifth shortlisted @UbwaliLitMag Hope Prize writer interview is with Suwilanji Namusamba. In it, she discusses her shortlisted essay, "Thoughtlets on Immersion," the books that inspire her, and her diverse interests. Read the interview here; creativewritingnews.com/suwi…

In Thoughtlets on Immersion, Suwilanji Namusamba paints a beautiful imagery of her relationship with water. “ So maybe, just maybe, deep down my body believes that the water is where I belong” ubwali.com/thoughtlets-on-im…

man im glad y’all like that thread omg i tend to not ramble ab ochako in public at sm point ill clean it up and put it on explodosmash bc frankly im starting to repeat myself n i let those little thoughtlets drop in conversations…maaaayy make it tumblr exclusive tho

Far too many stray thoughts being housed on these platforms. Let these thoughtlets perish in the streets like mayflies after the brainstorms have ended