[ascendantlogic]

While I agree with what you're saying re: Relaxation after work vs no work at all, the use of words is perfect to describe what I and probably many other people struggle with in regards to bettering their situations. I understand that I have a degree of self-improvement impulse that would be destructive if I indulged it fully, but I definitely have ideas for products and side businesses that I would really like to get around to but it gets washed away by this "narcotic undertow of cheap entertainment" as the author so eloquently puts it.

[shostack]

Yeah, have to agree here. Further, sometimes after a long week I don't have any creative energy for even thinking of side project ideas, and games are the only way I can recharge.

I used to be fine with that. Now as I get older I see it as a vice which causes major cognitive dissonance since it is my main way to recharge.