Notices by Paul, aka DrAbominable (paulw@petrous.vislae.town)

So, I'm in SF, visiting all the places I liked to go when I could or always meant to but never had the time to... And the majority of them are now shut down.

Hypothesis about productivity:

1) You're not unproductive, you just feel overwhelmed. At least, feelings about productivity are mostly disconnected from actual productivity.

2) Feeling overwhelmed reduces productivity, and worse, wipes out all positive emotional payoff from productivity.

3) You feel overwhelmed not because you're unproductive, it's because you feel responsible for additional things until you feel overwhelmed, and you do *that* because you've been raised to not value yourself.

It has occurred to me that there are, today, adults walking the earth who have no idea that "long distance", meaning phone calls between two people who are relatively far away from each other, was expensive, and thus made rarely, and generally was once a thing. Long distance calls were special.

Long distance meant two different cities. Maybe even the nearest major city if you lived far enough away from it. International calls were a whole other thing on top of that, almost incomprehensible.