I saw someone saying that they thought scrolling was affecting their memory formation, because it teaches the brain to immediately discard what it just saw to situate itself in a new context, over and over again. Something to this I think
By default, anthropic hides these "inner thought" aka text chunks. This is the reason why sometimes you see the anthropic flower loading in the middle of a response. Claude is basically deliberating at arbitrary points of a response for a better output - imo one of the most underrated unhobblings.
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read
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An essay: Why founders fail, despite being good at coding and high IQ.
Being mathematically smart hurts startup founders.
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