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This is also more like one or two hours for people with kids (which is a lot of people).
by sanderjd 8y ago
This is also more like one or two hours for people with kids (which is a lot of people).
- Swizec 8y agoThat’s 356 hours per year. You can do a lot in that many hours.
- antisthenes 8y agoDepends almost entirely on how they are spread out. It takes at least 30-45 minutes to get into a task that requires deep thought and concentration. Even for tasks that don't require deep thought, there is prep work. Working out? Gotta commute to the gym or at least get changed. Gotta make sure you're not hungry but not full at the same time. Gotta make sure you're hydrated. Gotta make sure you have music ready to go. Woodworking project? Don't even get me started on that one. Whoops, you just lost 75% of your 'free time'. I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but a lot of projects require a lot of prep work and people vastly underestimate the amount of prep work required. At least anything that's complex and sufficiently rewarding to warrant working 365 hours on. Basically 365 free hours != 365 hours of working on your project.
- coolaliasbro 8y agoCompletely agree. And unless one is sufficiently privileged to have the space to leave setups as is, one needs to factor in cleanup/storage.
- philipswood 8y agoThere are ways to reduce on that 40-45 minutes and bring it down to 5-15 minutes. Some comments from a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528393
- antisthenes 8y agoThanks so much for this! Bookmarked for some cool tricks!
- jwdunne 8y agoAfter wake up routine, school run, a full day of work, the few hours the kids are up after work and the bed time routine? That 2 hours a night I'm half-dead exhausted.
- all2 8y agoI don't know the breakdown of your schedule. But, would it be possible to immediately go to bed at the end of the day and then get up two hours early?
- RussianCow 8y agoThe point is, you have limited mental and physical energy. Shifting your schedule around just means you have less energy to devote to whatever you end your day with (which, in the case of kids, is not a good idea).
- coolaliasbro 8y agoI was attempting to say this above, more or less.
- jwdunne 8y agoTried this. My children are young. If I go downstairs, they will hear and think it's time to get up. How am I to demand they go back to bed when their role model isn't?
- ionised 8y agoTell them if they want to get up that early like you then they need to crank out some production-level code.
- coolaliasbro 8y agoI agree with the drift of this but would not describe myself as being exhausted for those 2 hours. More like just unwilling to anything not personally regenerative.
- rb808 8y agoI was going to agree because I thought you said 1-2 hours/week. There is no way most parents have 1-2 hours free time every day.
- _AzMoo 8y agoI'm a parent and I've got about 1 hour of free time a day, between the time the kids go to bed and I go to bed. As much as I would like to I cannot bring myself to make in this time.
- akuji1993 8y agoAnd that's okay, you are allowed to relax and not spend your whole day trying to improve and optimize and squeeze the productivity out of yourself. There's gonna be more relaxed days ahead, when the kids are bigger.
- sanderjd 8y agoProbably depends on the age, but with a 7 month old I have approximately 5:30-6:30am and 8:30-9:30pm.
- coolaliasbro 8y agoAnd even more if on is committed to more meaningful interactions with their child(ren),and, like, walking the dog and whatnot.