If you're too busy trying to put food on the table it leaves little time to explorer, be creative, in ways that doesn't move you up the needs pyramid, at least

If you're too busy trying to put food on the table it leaves little time to explorer, be creative, in ways that doesn't move you up the needs pyramid, at least in the short term. Or, just "busy" doing other shit. Indeed, downtime is required for creativity. At a workplace, if you've got super tight deadlines you don't have much space to explorer ideas. That deadspace is vital to produce better solutions. Assuming it's not wasted reading HN.