I really like that phrasing, "vaporizing your time", which captures the adversarial nature of external interruptions in a suitably light-hearted way. I would a

I really like that phrasing, "vaporizing your time", which captures the adversarial nature of external interruptions in a suitably light-hearted way. I would add that to produce anything it is important to clear a space both in time and physical or abstract space (e.g. a folder, if you are a programmer) into which you put tools and supplies and labor. You must then a) know each space, and b) develop a way to visit each space (and leave it) as required by circumstance and your own needs. For a program, you need (at a bare minimum): a folder, a toolset, a set of time, and a list of predicates that are currently false that you commit to making evaluate to true (but no cheating). This process is actively harmed by overwork, because overwork attacks the same cognition that is necessary to successfully execute the process.