63 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 2 Apr \ parent \ on: The network state and the hyper-spherical economy mostly_harmless
It does sound like that. It seems like you've done what we all say we'll do (get your life to broadly reflect your priorities and values) but often don't. A thing I'm wrestling with, and starting to feel like I'm making progress on, is why some of the online stuff feels bad sometimes, even though it's no great sin, objectively, and even though subjectively I'm sometimes doing what I think I should be doing, respecting the priority classes.
I think it has something to do with the mental modes that you're operating in. We talk about switch costs in terms of deadweight loss vs productivity you could have had (well, nobody uses that language, but that's what it is) but there are other costs. I was talking with @k00b about that someplace around here; will do a proper post eventually. But there seems to be some damage you take from it. I think a Disciplined approach, as @davidw suggests, may be able to mitigate some of it, but haven't cracked it yet.