I think it matters the type of work, and whether the outcome you want is more effort (crunches) or more of another type of output. For an example counter to yo

I think it matters the type of work, and whether the outcome you want is more effort (crunches) or more of another type of output. For an example counter to yours, I'm a musician. Hours in the studio -- even lazy, half-assed hours -- are a positive thing. It would be a bad idea to discard all the time blocks when I'm not working in the upper quartile of my ability. Lazy time in the game plants seeds for good ideas and increases the odds of having one. It's a bit like solo crypto mining -- you do a lot of grunt work for a big chunk of payout at an unknown interval.