Listening to the social-engineer podcast and having a question, how to apply this information to myself?

Get root and
sudo boring necessary task for 'n' hours &
...
Disconnected with error: initial packet timeout

--help

"Your mind is like that movie. Just as in the movie theater there is "you" watching a "movie," in your own head there is "you" watching your "mind." And like a great piece of cinema, you are absorbed in the movie of your mind: the thoughts, emotions, memories served up in a constant stream."
https://www.mindhacki.ng/content/
Introduction · Mind Hacking

init()

# pre-performance routine

Imagination is (like) open port to access infinite system resources.

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Found this^ time tracker convenient to log daily processes: load/create tasks for a day, one click to start logging, color-coded timelines on output.