402 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 18 Mar \ on: The habits and rituals of fragmentation mostly_harmless
Playing piano helps me a lot with reversing this fragmentation. It requires and rewards focus at the same time. It also shows me how much my mind is fragmented. You can get pretty used to this fragmentation such that it becomes your default state of mind that you don't question anymore.
The programmers among you will recognize the high price you pay when your focus is kept from coelescing, because somebody dumps a bunch of meetings on your calendar, or because you keep getting interrupted. A thirty second interruption costs vastly more than thirty seconds.
What you mention here is very related to the Maker's Schedule.
I am sure you already know this post from Paul Graham but mentioning it here for everyone who reads this and doesn't.
The interruption of rhythm is itself a rhythm. We often think of this as the lack of something, but really, it's the presence of something we don't have a good name for: the habits and rituals of fragmentation.
Regarding this, I have to think about it. I am currently too fragmented though, ha, but I try to come back to this when I did.
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