I’ve also thought about whether I can make myself more obsessed with work. It would be very convenient to feel about my job the way I feel about hyperfixations.
I think access to an easy flow of information about a topic is mostly what gets me into a hyperfixation. “Here’s some info, can I find more? I can! I succeeded at finding more info! Oh let’s do that again, I love succeeding!”
It’s hard to apply that to a field where I am the Information Creator. But maybe it would be cool if a chatbot spat out a bunch of fun facts about the history of whatever specific thing is I’m working on.