Not losing time
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So far a theme of this year is that I'm taking
more efforts to not lose any more time: losing
time due to my own mental health, losing time to
social media, losing time to wrestling with
software that's frustrating, losing time to task
switching, &c.

I feel like there's so many ways I can lose time
in a day, so many ways my attention gets
distracted. Just now as I was typing I had a
moment when I was looking at my browser because
of something I had on-screen instead of at my
secure shell window where I'm connecting to the
server to write this.

I know I've written about this before I've just
been thinking a lot about the ways that it feels
like our lives are practically designed to waste
our time on bullshit, especially in the pandemic
as everything is remote and everyone is more
terminally online than before.

I have a lot of respect for Ploum's
offline-first-for-a-year project that he's
doing. It makes a lot of sense to me and I do
kinda want to play with his new offpunk client
that's a heavily modified version of
solderpunk's gemini browser. I wish so much of
my job wasn't with tools that are online-first.

Maybe that's a copout, though? Like, for
example, I could download the pages I need for
reference, I could also use a local install of
p5 for my algorithmic art class that I'm
developing, things like that. I don't *have* to
have discord open at all times either, I just
want to.

I also really don't have to spend time on
twitter. Dear god twitter is my big weakness for
any kind of offline first life. I swear, though,
that if I had an easy way to aggregate the work
of the few hundred artists I follow into a feed
I can browse later I'd absolutely spend less
time there.

I don't know if I have a real conclusion other
than the fact that I'm trying to do better in my
own halting ways.