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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
I've noticed that consciousness recedes when I'm deep in a coding phase, many back-to-back days in flow. My mind narrows to tunnel-vision, fixated on the software and its issues. My sense of self shrinks; non-code ideas cease to arise; I get less curious; writing yields little.
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joe
@addrinuse
This is something ive struggled with recently, especially with trying to pinpoint how programming differs from other work. Of your hypotheses for me it is noticing due to more self-awareness. You put into words something ive felt very strongly in the last year or so.
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joe
@addrinuse
Another observation of my experience at least, is a much lower level of presence at home. Honestly before your thread I attributed some of this to attention-related issues or something along those lines.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
Yeah, definitely. It *is* an attention-related issue: I lose the ability (or more accurately: interest? inclination?) to place my attention on anything non-abstract, non-technical, etc.
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George Pór #StandWithUkraine
@technoshaman
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@andy_matuschak
Neither Samantha nor Vipassana R particularly helpful when you need to USE your mind. Tantric meditation is about marrying the two half of the attention, in this case, on the flow and on the breath. It takes practice. Try it, first, only for 3-5 mins. See how it goes. Lemme know.
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