So...there's this thing my head does when someone mentions something anywhere near my areas of expertise, where my head will immediately begin tracing out how it works - what it interacts with - what the base requirements are - possible attack vectors - mitigative strategies - unless I suppress this reflexive thought pattern by force.
Is there a term for this?
'cuz it's -really- annoying, especially when I'm tired and the suppression isn't working so well.
It's also part of why I don't sleep right :-/
I think it's an overstimulation of the pattern recognition areas of the brain relative to highly-reinforced neuronal connectivity networks that you have built-up over the years of doing what you do.
I suffer from it too.
I have no idea what it might be called other than "categorically specific hyper-awareness syndrome" or some such nonsense? 😕
Munin, Keeper of Lore
Rich Larson
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