I've dumbed myself into what?

A long hibernation... My last post was more than a decade ago. I seem to have forgotten that I could use this space to express my thoughts.

Let me reflect.

What happened in this last decade that stopped me from writing? While there are many reasons I could think of, two really stand out. 

I invested a lot of energy into my job and in the process forgetting simple pleasures like writing. It was a blinkered working style. Staying with the same routine and exercises over and over again. No quarrel about the outcome though.

The second: This last decade has also seen an increased media presence in many avtars. My phone which gives me the luxury of spending hours and hours reading short articles, silly forwards, following gossips, news tidbits, memes and the latest in the queue - the shape shifting AI. That fascinating world seems to offer a lot. Just eating away into my time. One endless hum... moving from one to the other app. This demonic all consuming presence and the exercise has very limited outcome and I tend to believe my productivity has suffered the brunt of it. I seem to invest a lot of time trying to understand different apps. More than what I used to spend thinking through an exercise.

I now skim through a reference upload the document and ask questions. AI spits out the responses. It certainly has brought down my engagement time spitting out specific details and sometimes details which have been missed. 

And, am I sucked into this black hole? Totally! Am I trying to balance it out? I would like to believe so!