http://illimitablemen.com/2014/04/13/monk-mode/

There's no TLDR or summary this time, read it or get your lazy ass out of here.

On a brief and relatively unimportant note, in an attempt to preempt autistic pedantry: I did not come up with the term "monk mode"

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