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Focus / Procrastination Medium severity ⧗ 20 min

Doom-scroll urge

You picked up the phone "for one second" and you are 22 minutes into a feed.

▶ DETECTED BUG feed_dopamine_drip.exe
▶ WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING

A drip-feed of micro-novelty is exploiting your variable-reward circuit. You are not browsing. You are being browsed.

▶ OS REWRITE

The feed has no end state. The only exit is physical removal from your hand.

▶ NEXT ACTION

Phone in another room. 20 pushups or a walk to a window. Then start one task.

▶ KILL COMMAND sudo killall -9 feed_dopamine_drip
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label feed_dopamine_drip.exe
meaning

Variable reward loop with no exit condition.

recommended move

Physically remove input device.

Execution sequence

  1. 01
    Remove device

    Phone goes physically out of reach.

  2. 02
    Body input

    20 pushups, walk, water.

  3. 03
    New task

    Open laptop to one specific work file.

▶ RUN OVERWRITE ⧗ start 20-min sprint