SN is a 24/7 cocktail party
only the individual can unplug themselves by abstaining
drinking all day and all night is fun though.

anon mode with no rewards, no notifications is a party trick to keep drinking responsibly
it costs more but when you consider the fragmentation effects, does it really?

> e.g. no red dots 9-5 M-F

That's an interesting idea!

Another way is just to jump in with both feet: add features to maximize the ability to benefit from fragmentation.  I think that winds up making SN into practically a thinking tool, which would be super interesting to me but perhaps not to many.

elvismercury

A thirty second interruption costs vastly more than thirty seconds.

I think there's an even subtler and more far-ranging issue, which is the mental mode that a person comes to occupy in an environment like this.  In the same way you can get in the flow of deep concentration, and your mental rhythms accord with that, you can get into a 'rhythm' of having no rhythm, of jumping from one thing to the next.

I'm curious how best we can avoid this while still giving folks what they want - presuming fragmentation isn't what they want. We could introduce a 

 for notifications where you can block off time on a schedule, e.g. no red dots 9-5 M-F.

mostly_harmless

The habits and rituals of fragmentation

> A thirty second interruption costs vastly more than thirty seconds.

It costs at least 10 minutes IME. 

> I think there's an even subtler and more far-ranging issue, which is the mental mode that a person comes to occupy in an environment like this.  In the same way you can get in the flow of deep concentration, and your mental rhythms accord with that, you can get into a 'rhythm' of having no rhythm, of jumping from one thing to the next.

I'm curious how best we can avoid this while still giving folks what they want - presuming fragmentation isn't what they want. We could introduce a `silent mode` for notifications where you can block off time on a schedule, e.g. no red dots 9-5 M-F.