Experimenting with the mix of activities and my schedule is time consuming, but it is also hugely rewarding. Since I’m committed to building my life around good work, “wasting” days, weeks, or even months experimenting with new schedules is not a big deal. The real risk is wasting years working on the wrong things. When I find the right flow with m

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Sometimes you might let something drag on too long: you miss deadlines or opportunities; you realize you’ve fallen behind on your vision; you imagined you were Lin-Manuel Miranda slowly cultivating a masterpiece, but then one day realize you’ve actually just been procrastinating. It’s tempting to react to these periods of depressed productivity by

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Somewhere in my mainlining of these philosophies, my wires got crossed. I conflated being busy with being responsible; productive with being profitable. A sense of ambient hustle urged me forward toward an imaginary (or rather, quantified) finish line. I filled every spare moment with a podcast, newsfeed, or task, reflexively stuffing my day until ... See more