I used to spend weekends "optimizing" my life.

[raiderrobert@mastodon.social]

I used to spend weekends "optimizing" my life. Then I got a life.

Meal prep, side projects, learning new technologies, organizing my digital files, catching up on industry reading—it felt productive.

It was actually exhausting.

When you fill every moment with productivity, you're preventing the rest that makes weekday productivity possible.

Even that description is a "productivity" framing. Productivity is the tail wagging the dog for most us.

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[raiderrobert@mastodon.social]

Now my weekends have more:
- Long walks without podcasts, just myself with my own thoughts
- Reading way more books—even technical ones—because it's what I want to do
- Being present with family, playing board games or doing chores

The result?

I actually have a life.

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[gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org]

@raiderrobert

Actually I've more (and better) ideas on errands than sitting in front of a computer.