Spinning the Wheel (dylanamartin.com)

This is a more fleshed out version of my reflection that we’re replacing dopamine addiction to scrolling with dopamine addiction to creation. Replacing doom scrolling with doom tabbing. Or doom muxing if you’re into tmux.

There is something seductive about the loop. It simulates progress. It feels like making.

I’d say it feels like progress because it is progress—with the huge qualifier that crappy first drafts are progress. Editing is progress. Good things take iteration. Most of life is sanding.

The contemplative work is what makes the execution productive instead of just fun. Without it, I’m just pulling levers and hoping.

Get out your Cal Newport books and organize your calendar for some deep work and slow productivity. Prompt slow to move fast.