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I would like to add a more practical recommendation:

Apply more or less extreme limits on your setup. Get rid of X. Write your essay on an embedded system. Do everything from your REPL at least one day of the week. Don't open a graphical browser at all during weekends. Delete mutt and write your own parser for the mbox format.

It can seem silly but for learning how to wring the most out of computer systems it is one of the better regimes, and once one starts to accept that the machines are unfinished hacks that needs a lot of work to get decent rather than the shiny gems advertisements and culture make them out to be it will get easier to handle.