Wow, this is a phenomenal post. I have always considered myself to be well versed in what might be termed “critical enjoyment,” but I see now that I am a consummate amateur.

What I love about this piece is how it treats enjoyment as a trainable faculty rather than something fixed. It lines up with the Reality Drift Equation, where meaning deepens when you slow the entropy of your own attention. So much of modern life pushes us toward synthetic realness and hyper-compressed impressions, but these micro skills of enjoyment are basically tools for reversing that drift. Letting intensity in, widening the frame, and building context are all ways of restoring temporal depth to your experiences instead of living in the flattened now. It’s a reminder that liking things more is a practice of preserving your own fidelity in a high entropy world.