Something that works for me is count from 10 to 1 slowly. Concentrate getting to 1. If another thought enters, start the count again. Repeat. This is like counting the proverbial sheep.
That's in the same category of techniques that will only work for a very brief time for me. At some point I realize I have background thoughts, and then those take over.
There's a lot of people on HN that are not from the USA: at-will doesn't exist in many other wealthy countries.
E.g. I'm from New Zealand, and at-will contracts are not legal for employees. A company can use contracts (employing a contractor) but contracts are effectively restricted to professional specialists. A company can use temping agencies but the agency takes a big commission on top of wages. A company that has to sack someone can often get hit with financial penalties through the employee rights protection laws.
I have no idea whether OpenAI is the right company to do this, but LinkedIn is awful for job hunting, and more generally it strikes me that our ability (as a race) to match people to ideal jobs is woefully inefficient. Any incremental improvement is welcome.
SponsorBlock [0] works pretty well for me (on FF):
"SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos."
[0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/