Context Dissolution

When David Allen organized next actions by context—@Computer, @Calls, @Office, @Home—he was doing more than filing tasks efficiently. He was building an architecture of identity. The @Home list said, in effect: right now, your professional self is not your concern. The context switch was a state transition, a signal to the mind that the character of engagement was changing, a permission slip to disengage from one domain and be fully present in another. Context dissolution names what happens when large language models that run in every pocket at any hour eliminate the conditions that made those boundaries meaningful. The @Computer context once assumed that some tasks required a specific machine in a specific place; when Claude Code works from a phone in an elevator, @Computer becomes @Everywhere. The @Office context assumed that certain work could only happen in a physical location; when AI enables full-stack development from a soccer field, @Office dissolves into @Anytime.