Lucy Keer

Is there a reliable plan of action for making some activity free in terms of spoons? It feels like you ought to be able to practice it.

I think it depends a lot on the activity. Some activities are always going to take spoons, but some probably start to approach zero spoons as you transition from conscious competence to unconscious competence in them.

What I have in mind is writing, and since that also involves thinking hard I suspect unconscious competence is tricky to achieve.

I don't agree! The problem with writing is that there's no upper bound on how good you can/want to be, so you're constantly in transition between conscious and unconscious competence, but as soon as you've made that transition you find new things to improve.

The trick to spoon free writing is satisficing: write less well than you are able to and find a way to be comfortable with that.