Copying over some free-form thoughts from Discord about ways this post feels relevant to my life:
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one thing this makes me think of is how my action menu shrunk to like five things in fall 2020
because there was covid and that severely limited the available activities, and then I moved and then, before I had unpacked, found out I have to soon move again, so I couldn’t access most of my stuff OR most of my space since it was taken up by boxes, and then also some of the time the air was poison so going outside was also not very much an option
and then I think.… the fact that a bunch of options got greyed out by actual circumstances and I got used to living a very limited life… also somehow ~broke my ability to think of new options that could potentially work even with the constraints that existed?
I guess this post is mostly about that kind of psychologically greyed-out options that aren’t driven by real constraints
but it was interesting how the real constraints had this additional effect
and then I moved again and the situation was somewhat better but I was so used to this very limited life that it was hard to actually expand my action menu much even though I theoretically could
I did eventually kind of
but much more after vaccines and reopening
though I’m still catching up, also
my stuff is STILL in boxes to an embarassingly large extent
- hmm, articulation of thought: one benefit of cleaning my room is expanding my action menu / un-graying-out options
because many actions require or at least benefit from various objects and if the objects are actually accessible that helps
another maybe interesting thing is I absolutely knew at the time [i.e. in fall 2020] this was the case [i.e. that I was having a greyed-out-options problem]
that there were probably things I could do that would be better
but it was so so hard to think of them let alone do them
Copying over some free-form thoughts from Discord about ways this post feels relevant to my life:
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one thing this makes me think of is how my action menu shrunk to like five things in fall 2020
because there was covid and that severely limited the available activities, and then I moved and then, before I had unpacked, found out I have to soon move again, so I couldn’t access most of my stuff OR most of my space since it was taken up by boxes, and then also some of the time the air was poison so going outside was also not very much an option
and then I think.… the fact that a bunch of options got greyed out by actual circumstances and I got used to living a very limited life… also somehow ~broke my ability to think of new options that could potentially work even with the constraints that existed?
I guess this post is mostly about that kind of psychologically greyed-out options that aren’t driven by real constraints
but it was interesting how the real constraints had this additional effect
and then I moved again and the situation was somewhat better but I was so used to this very limited life that it was hard to actually expand my action menu much even though I theoretically could
I did eventually kind of
but much more after vaccines and reopening
though I’m still catching up, also
my stuff is STILL in boxes to an embarassingly large extent
- hmm, articulation of thought: one benefit of cleaning my room is expanding my action menu / un-graying-out options
because many actions require or at least benefit from various objects and if the objects are actually accessible that helps
another maybe interesting thing is I absolutely knew at the time [i.e. in fall 2020] this was the case [i.e. that I was having a greyed-out-options problem]
that there were probably things I could do that would be better
but it was so so hard to think of them let alone do them