imagine being one of those people whos like. okay im gonna do this for 30 minutes. and then they focus on it for 30 minutes. and then theyre like okay im gonna do this other thing, for 30 minutes. and then they focus on it for 30 minutes

if i do more than 4 different activities in a single day, i feel completely discombobulated. getting my brain to go into a different gear takes at least 3 hours, and i think the gears are arranged linearly, with, for example, the "focusing and getting work done" and "socializing with other people" requiring about five or six gear changes to get from one to the other

maybe this is why travel is so exhausting? it's not that i'm personally walking hundreds of miles, but the sheer number of mental context switches when you have to pack your bag, go to the train station, find the train, get on the train, get off, have lunch, get another train, get a taxi, etc

i see someone on the train playing a nintendo switch and im like. whoa. imagine being able to play a video game while doing another, different activity. don't you know youre gonna have to get off the train in 25 minutes? how can you be enjoying yourself

someone phones me, and im like. sorry, i cant speak to you right now. yeah im waiting for a call. someone else is supposed to call me in exactly 8 hours, so i kinda cant speak to you right now until ive dealt with that