Close the Laptop

A market that never closes eventually tries to make the same argument about you.

There is always another update, another room, another person announcing that the next twelve minutes will determine the future. Stay around long enough and urgency becomes the default setting.

Closing the laptop is not an act of confidence. Sometimes it is an admission that the next useful thought will not arrive through the same screen.

I keep books nearby for that reason. Reading changes the speed of attention. A page does not refresh itself. It does not reward interruption. It asks you to remain in one place long enough for an idea to develop.

The market will still be open when the chapter ends.

The question is whether I will return with perspective or simply more fatigue.

Close the laptop before the laptop closes the rest of the evening.