8/ I've seen research indicating that mind-wandering is at heart of creativity, play. Multitasking is less efficient, but is more creative
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9/ If you think about it environments that allow extended focus on one activity are unnatural and historically anomalous: the Industrial Age
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10/ But there's deeper phenomenon here: metacognition. Mind wandering makes us interrupt driven by design. Metacognition makes us good at it
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11/ The critical thing to understand is that a "task" or "thread" is not magically defined *for* us by psychologists or Charlie Munger
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12/ We are doing this *constantly*. We factor and refactor recursively all the way down. Defining "tasks" dynamically IS metacognition
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I think it's a weak, limiting frame. Mind-wandering is a more powerful conceptualization. It's not an internet-age thing
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but in re mind-wandering, eye saccades, bee foraging patterns etc are representable as Lévy flights
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oh like if you track people's eye movements or put little beacons on bees, the patterns traced out are fractal.
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