Busy busy busy
jasonleow • 23 Jan 2025 •
Alarm goes off at 4:40am
Snooze, snooze again
Hard wake at 5am
Wash, brush
Water first
Meditate for 5min
Coffee, always double espresso
20 pushups before I sit down
5:30am, deep work starts
Manage Carrd account on X
Fire off a few quick replies on personal Twitter
1h passed, I’m now on to code, deeper work
Another hour, then daily writing
I might have a draft from the night before, or not
100-200 words out, publish, screenshot, log it
Family starts to wake
Brush, wash kiddo
8am drop off to school
Exercise time - brisk walk first, 15min
Body weight workout
Calf raises
Dead hangs
Pullups
Toe raises
Hamstring extension
Squats
Pushups
Climb up 7 floors
Stretch
Quick breakfast - slab of butter, eggs, blueberries, vitamins
9am, code some more, or build, or market
10am, on to 1h of Carrd support tickets
11am, drop lunch off to kiddo
Walk to lunch place nearby, order the same thing everyday
Devour lunch
Buy ice coffee-tea concoction
Quick supermarket buys
12pm, back to work, this time on Podseeker
Rails, Tailwind, Javascript
2:30pm, fetch son from school
3pm, daily standup with the Podseeker team
Continue coding, while being available
Time of distractions, and interruptions, no deep work here
4-5pm, finish code, push PR
5pm, start on 2nd 1h session of Carrd tickets
6pm, and it’s dinner with the fam
7pm, on to Carrd on Twitter
8pm, personal Twitter time, shitpost, reply, reply, reply
9pm, shower
9:30pm, bedtime routines, family circle time, book reading
10pm, lights off, I might chill a bit on the phone, but usually too worn out to enjoy
10ishpm, sleep
4:40am next day, repeat ad nauseam
I basically have no bandwidth for anything other than work, family or basic living activities. No entertainment, no me time, no nothing.
I’m not proud my schedule’s so crazy. Life feels a bit… empty. I’m just a work machine, an income machine. But it feeds the fam, for now. I should be grateful. Better be tired earning money than not tired with no money fighting for survival.
But I’m tired fine
Comments
take care, too busy and it might just become another burn out.
@therealbrandonwilson Yeah most of the time, by the time i get there, it might just be 30min or less cos the earlier things overrun and i’m super tired… def engaging a lot less now on X
@knight Thanks bro. For sure, have to be careful. This week more siong cos onboarding to new job
The powers that be have definitely designed modern life in a crappy way 🥲
@haideralmosawi Yes I wish the powers that be made modern life less expensive, so that I don’t have to work so much!
How about we cut out that 8 pm block and get to sleep an hour earlier? That should minimize the first two lines. “You gotta go to bed!!” 😜