[aerospace_guy]

I'm guessing you're familiar with the concept of mindfulness. Just out of curiosity, why didn't you mention/discuss it in this essay?

FWIW, I enjoyed the essay.

[ankitshah]

Great question (and thanks for commenting!)

I think I hit on the point in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23596448

I aimed to make this essay as easy to digest as possible, and part of that effort involved eliminating labels, ideas or phrases that might have a lot of inconsistent associations across different readers' minds (e.g. "mindfulness")