2024-06 • optimization

The Flow Breakthrough

"Basically, about a year and a half ago, somewhere in the middle of 2024, I was finally able to stop and completely complete the project within a single hyper focus session. This was a game changer for..." — 2025-10 | Discussing mid-2024 events


Before

  • Start project
  • Hyperfocus for hours
  • Get interrupted or exhausted
  • Shift to something else
  • Previous project dies
  • Repeat forever
  • 131 repos, almost nothing shipped

The Shift

Stop fighting the monotropism.

Design projects for single-session completion.

Not "learn to switch better." Not "build discipline."

Accept the tunnel. Work with it.


After

"This was a game changer"

When you stop forcing a monotropic brain to act polytropic, it stops failing at polytropism.

And starts excelling at depth.


The Pattern

Fighting it:

  • Many small tasks
  • Constant switching
  • 0.1% completion rate
  • Exhaustion

Working with it:

  • One complete arc
  • Protected flow time
  • Ships
  • Energy

→ The Prosthetic


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