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I appreciate you describing brain fog as psychological torment.
I think most severe/life-disrupting cases of long COVID are indistinguishable from ME/CFS. (I think it would be correct to say long COVID "causes" ME/CFS.) As someone living with ME/CFS: yes, the cognitive dysfunction is torture. And pushing to do stuff anyway just makes things worse -- this is called post-exertional malaise.
The comparison to sleep deprivation is good, but I'll note that the brain fog I regularly experience due to ME/CFS is much worse than any sleep deprivation I had ever experienced in my life beforehand.
The cognitive dysfunction itself is awful. And the way it crushes your dreams is heartbreaking. Say goodbye to your career... (read more)
Sounds like we feel similarly about a lot of this stuff. For a few years now, I've been trying to keep my phone notifications very low. The devices I generally use for reading/writing do not get any notifications.
Despite these ideas mostly not being new to me, I got value from this post for two reasons:
1. This validates my own experience. It moves me away from believing "I am personally easily distracted, so I keep distractions low" and towards believing "maybe a lot of people are perpetually semi-distracted by their notifications." Although I'm not sure how big of an update to make there.
2. I'm glad you described the intellectual mosh pit thing. My... (read more)
Personally, I don't really blame you or think less of you for this screwup. I never got the impression that you are the sort of person who should be sent confidential book review drafts. Maybe you'd disagree, but that seems like a misunderstanding of your role to me.
It seemed clear to me that you made yourself available to confidential reports regarding conflict, abuse, and community health. Not disagreements with a published book. It makes sense that you didn't have a habit of mentally flagging those emails as confidential.
Regardless, I trust that you've been more careful since then, and I appreciate how clearly you own up to this mistake.
I want to offer my +1 that I strongly believe Julia's trustworthy for reports regarding Leverage.
Thank you so much for writing this. I've had a lot of the same questions myself, and I really wanted to see someone's Fermi estimates on them. This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to see.