this is true for me too and i think it’s part of why ive always been somewhat skeptical about top-down “time management”. feels fake to me. to me time has always been strange and squishy and slippery and squelchy
“To our surprise, he [Terry Tao] replied in under two hours saying he’d never seen this before,” Parke said. Tao’s reply also included three independent proofs of the identity.
I don't know any first-person account but you could try Chapter 12 ("THE RISE AND RISE OF THE SPREADSHEET") in The History of Mathematical Tables.
Maybe the further reading or notes sections will have what you're looking for.
I love that the draconian Mississippi law that sparked this whole SCOTUS case is way less restrictive than the Portuguese abortion law which was liberalized 15 years ago.
