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Excellent essay, thanks for posting. It parallels the following important idea from pg's essay on losing time and money (http://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html http://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html): The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. As a person who has suffered for the latter all my life, I cannot emphasize this more. Even now, when I have a few precious hours to myself on a Sunday afternoon (this happens very rarely), I have no immediate plans, so I surf this or that website, taking notes about ideas, etc., which to someone watching me would seem like I was engaged in valuable activity.