People have developed plugins for this. Check out “sesh” for instance.

Switching between sessions with fuzzy finding, and creating new ones when needed, is a wonderful feature.

Depending, of course, on how many artworks he’s sold.

Artworks sold by artist is a very poor way to define who is and is not an artist. Look at Vincent van Gogh who only sold one painting.

There’s more than one issue. It’s not wrong to try to solve one of them.

Yes, Music for 18 Musicians is such a wonderful companion for sustained focus. I look forward to checking out Electric Counterpoint more closely.

Take a look at the site guidelines.

I don’t love vi-mode, but I’ll address your comment.

Many people these days, including yours truly, have caps-lock mapped to ctrl if held or esc if tapped. That’s good ergonomics and worth considering for any tech-savvy person.

Instead of the 3b I would type bbb (because I agree with you that typing numerals is a pain).

So (caps lock)bbbcw isn’t bad. It’s better than it looks, because if you’re a vim user then it’s just so automatic. “cw” feels like one atomic thing, not two keypresses.

And importantly, it doesn’t involve any chords.

And the friction of storing stuff. I want to listen to music, not manage a collection.

Takes all kinds, I guess. If I don't have it permanently (or at least non-transiently) recorded on physical media that resides within my living space, I can't feel like I "own" it.

I believe Uiua is an excellent one to look at first. It’s simpler than the others you mentioned without sacrificing any power (that I know of). You can type in meaningful words which then appear as cute glyphs, rather than learning new ways of entering things. Each glyph has only one meaning whereas APL (and I think the others) assign context-dependent meanings to some glyphs.

Check out folke/flash.nvim for a motion jump plugin. It’s brilliant.

That’s good, and I also have spoken to people in public about their noise several times, but…

That dude shouldn’t be turning it down; he should be turning it off.

My go-to line is: “Excuse me, do you have any earphones?”

This attitude is what brings the conflict from healthy compromise of competing goals to unproductive power struggle. Why is it so important to you that other people's use of public space is subservient to your own?

If I am on a bus or something I have asked other people to turn their audio down, but most other places it's easy enough for me to just move somewhere else.