There's a version of this argument that's been made a thousand times, and you've already filed it under obvious: attention is finite, the feed is infinite, be careful. I want to make a slightly sharper claim1.
Attention isn't just scarce — it's the only input I have left that I can't borrow, batch, or buy back at a markup. Money compounds. Tools multiply. But the hour I spend half-here, half-scrolling doesn't return at a discount later. It's simply gone, and quietly.
The economics of being here
Treat focus as capital and the usual productivity advice inverts. The question isn't "how do I do more in this hour" but "what is this hour's principal, and am I spending it or lighting it on fire."
Below is the smallest change that moved the needle for me: a single config flag that turns the day's first surface from a feed into a blank page.
# the only setting that mattered{"\n"}startup.surface = "blank" // not "feed"{"\n"}notifications.batch = "09:00, 17:00"
None of this is a system you should copy wholesale. It's an argument, and arguments are meant to be tested against your own life2. So here's the next action, which is the whole point of writing this down.
1 The sharper a claim, the more useful it is to be wrong about precisely.
2 If it survives contact with a real week, keep it. If not, discard without ceremony.