I think you need an absurdist lens to not get lost here. Camus had a point. Think about it, I could say I'm going to adopt a modal diet, which is really what m

I think you need an absurdist lens to not get lost here. Camus had a point. Think about it, I could say I'm going to adopt a modal diet, which is really what monk mode is, a modal diet of information attention. How would my modal diet work? One day, fasting, the next day, a steady stream of alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, and processed food. Consistency is key. As technical people, we know this from reading the history from Pirsig (ZMM) to Nielsen-Norman: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modal-nonmodal-dialog/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modal-nonmodal-dialog/ Asceticism has never scaled, much like the hacker news post today about intimacy not scaling, or the fact that modality in design was more about making it easy for implementors than making it easy for consumers. Monks have been and will always be ascetic. There's nothing ascetic about taking a time-honored tradition and using it to mis-label the behavior of people who are overwhelmed by water they cannot breathe but cannot ignore.