We leave a thought half-finished at ten, and come back to it at noon. The thread is gone, so we build the same conclusion again. Switching doesn’t divide the work. It repeats it. Unless the last line is already written down — then coming back is a read, not a rethink.
What it says
You didn’t lose time — you spent it twice.
We leave a half-finished thought on the desk at ten.
Back at noon, the thread’s gone.
So we build the same conclusion a second time.
But the days we wrote that last line down, coming back costs nothing.
So the cost was never the interruption itself.
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Voiceover is AI-generated. Ideas come from books I have read.
