Sedentary multitasking is what machines do, but ever since the pandemic, that’s all WE do. Are we becoming computers? Do we exist just to make spreadsheets?
We are:
1. Synchronizing activities
2. Entering and exiting schedules
3. Perfecting chocolate chip cookie recipes
1. When doing all life activities in one setting, such as the home, synchronizing everything into one master schedule is tough. Your perception of time stretches and collapses depending on the task… writing a project proposal versus nodding dutifully in an online meeting. Did they said three or five? What’s the topic now?
We’re managing multiple time-scales:
🌞❄️🍂 long term: years, phases, seasons…
🗓️ short term: weeks, days…
⏱️ immediate: hourly, minutely, unexpected events…
2. Our work and life has flattened into one world. To transition between tasks, we have to re-expand space with our bodies. Reset for the next task by walking around the house or down the street. Remember to come back. Take an object you will use later—a remote, pen, measuring spoon—and place it in the mailbox. When it’s time to do that activity, grab it. This “commute” resets your mind.
Put a chocolate chip cookie in the mailbox or microwave and take a nibble out of it each cycle. Can a computer byte? I mean bite? Can sugar dissolve on its tongue, binding to receptors T1R2/T1R3s giving that sweet sensation?
3. There’s no such thing as an imperfect chocolate chip cookie recipe 🍪 as the CCC is perfection itself.
🍪CCC = Perfection🍪
Chocolate : loved and consumed by millions of humans who are not computers.
Chip : you can add any kind of chip into your cookie: nuts, sprinkles, dried fruit, cpus, gpus, ram, that is not made by computers.
Cookie : round, a great and popular shape loved by millions of humans across time but possibly also computers.
Noon Mul 
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