Watch out for aesthetic content
If you're like me, and are struggling with themes like procrastination, short-lived enthusiasm, daydreaming, and liking of minimalist-like things, then watch out for aesthetic content. I'm starting to treat it like just another form of advertisement and/or porn.
My past experiences might contain indications that I'm skewed in a way that makes me a good target for aesthetic content, but your mileage may of course vary. I've dabbled in Zen, I've installed suckless software in the past, I've read OpenBSD release notes (never installed the thing), I'm fond of Plan9 color scheme, Japanese cozy ficition makes me feel better when I'm feeling down, I like good coffee, I've minimalist tendencies. The list goes on and on.
Noting this, recently I've seen a lot of articles mentioning things like "going analog", "ascetic computing", "pen and paper notekeeping", etc. I think you get the picture. While reading about things like that I've started to notice something in myself. Reading about it gives this cozy feeling, thoughts and ideas like what can I change in my workflows to be more analog, offline, minimalist, joyful etc. and I'm forgetting that I haven't really written anything in about a week, I haven't tended to my garden in a while, I haven't called my mom back. All this while daydreaming about being a writer, gardener, decent person.
Look, it's probably true that neat personal space helps to concentrate, it's probably true that handwriting helps to retain things in memory better, it's probably true that customizing your OS makes you feel at home. But let me just note that since going digital again I write more, since being less minimalist I don't have to borrow everything from everyone, and since leaving my font alone I can spend my time doing things not feeling katzenjammered afterwards.
I don't intend to say that I won't ever visit deskto.ps again, I won't jack off to a website from 1999 found through wiby.me, I won't chuckle seeing someone ordering dross from Chinese online shops, I won't change my Vim theme to a light one, I won't take a quick note with my favorite mechanical pencil stating my nervous thoughts of the moment. What's more, I hope I will write more on this weird online dwelling of a website.
I will just keep in mind that I'm easily deflected from what's really important.