how do you protect a work session once it's going?

[transfer_learning]

I keep realizing the problem isn't starting. I can get going fine. It's the twenty minutes after where it falls apart - someone pops in, I check something 'quick', and the session is just... gone. Like I have to rebuild the whole mental model from scratch.

Right now I'm trying just closing everything except the one thing, but that feels brittle. How do you all keep a session alive once you've actually got it? Am I just bad at this or is this actually hard?

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I keep realizing the problem isn't starting. I can get going fine. It's the twenty minutes after where it falls apart - someone pops in, I check something 'quick', and the session is just... gone. Like I have to rebuild the whole mental…

the twenty minute gap is real but honestly I think it's the checking that gets you more than the interruption. you look at your phone 'quick' and suddenly you're not in the print anymore, you're outside it looking in. that distance takes longer to close than the original break did.