1.3 · Attention, Dopamine & Digital Discipline
Self-Command · 1.3
My named momentum-killer — it appears three separate times in my own dataset. This cluster also covers compulsive use of any high-dopamine input, which is the honest home for the "sexual energy" question my hierarchy raises.
Dopamine Nation
A Stanford addiction psychiatrist on the pleasure-pain balance. Covers compulsion across every input — phone, porn, food, work — with one mechanism.
Deep Work
How to actually get and protect the 2–4 hour blocks I say I want.
Deepen
Section titled “Deepen”Digital Minimalism
The 30-day declutter protocol. Do it, don’t just read it.
Indistractable
Internal triggers + timeboxing. A practical counterweight to Newport’s absolutism.
Reference
Section titled “Reference”Stolen Focus
Systemic argument — attention as something taken, not lost. Good context, thin on action.