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Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by williamdclt »

sacado2 wrote: post #43
Waterluvian wrote: post #41

All summer my wife and I would do the same thing every weekend. We would find a town within 45 mins, any direction, that we haven't been to. We'd find a really nice park there and take our toddler and have a picnic. After that was unplanned. Sometimes we'd go home and take it easy. Sometimes we'd wander.

45 mn is a rather small radius. Didn't you run out of unknown towns after some time? I'm pretty sure I've visited all cities in my neighborhood, at least those that are worth it.

I suppose it depends where you leave. 45min around my hometown would include something like ~100 towns. Many of them are blending into each other, but you still have quite a lot of variety and stuff to see

Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by jonsen »

sacado2 wrote: post #43
Waterluvian wrote: post #41

All summer my wife and I would do the same thing every weekend. We would find a town within 45 mins, any direction, that we haven't been to. We'd find a really nice park there and take our toddler and have a picnic. After that was unplanned. Sometimes we'd go home and take it easy. Sometimes we'd wander.

45 mn is a rather small radius. Didn't you run out of unknown towns after some time? I'm pretty sure I've visited all cities in my neighborhood, at least those that are worth it.

Maybe they build a fast flying car in the past weekends.

Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by Waterluvian »

sacado2 wrote: post #43
Waterluvian wrote: post #41

All summer my wife and I would do the same thing every weekend. We would find a town within 45 mins, any direction, that we haven't been to. We'd find a really nice park there and take our toddler and have a picnic. After that was unplanned. Sometimes we'd go home and take it easy. Sometimes we'd wander.

45 mn is a rather small radius. Didn't you run out of unknown towns after some time? I'm pretty sure I've visited all cities in my neighborhood, at least those that are worth it.

Check the map for surrounding Waterloo Ontario. There's a ton of cities and towns.

Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by ianai »

The most productive person I know literally cannot stop. He has to be doing something every moment of the day or he turns sour. He’s also horrible to be around often because he’s prone to caustic, hyper criticism. He seems to have been born with more energy than average. Tho maybe it’s a symptom of ocd or somehow related?

I personally average one completely lazy day per weekend and one day of getting everything done.

Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by elliekelly »

I started teaching myself to code about a year ago and in my last job before I "retired" to travel I managed a team that was woefully inefficient and stuck in their ways. I was constantly telling them "there's always a better way!" When I had learned enough about programming to strike out on my own a bit I realized I need to practice building stuff that was a bit more complex/interesting than yet another To Do App. So I started to keep a little list of all the things I encountered that were frustratingly inefficient or annoying so I could try to "build a better way" as a way to practice coding.

I try to work on building something from my list every weekend. I'll be the first to admit that (so far at least) most of the things I've built have not, in fact, been better than the status quo. But it lets me flex my problem-solving muscles a bit and I definitely learn better by coding something from scratch than I do from any code-along course/project.

Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by Pimpus »

ianai wrote: post #54

The most productive person I know literally cannot stop. He has to be doing something every moment of the day or he turns sour. He’s also horrible to be around often because he’s prone to caustic, hyper criticism. He seems to have been born with more energy than average. Tho maybe it’s a symptom of ocd or somehow related? I personally average one completely lazy day per weekend and one day of getting everything done.

Sounds like a personality trait, not a mental disorder. High conscientiousness plus high neuroticism would be my guess from my favorite armchair.

Anyway, I agree that obsessing over productivity can be toxic. The correct mindset is to be efficient, not just productive, so you can finish your tasks faster in order to enjoy life sooner.

Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by LouisSayers »

Sat: 8:45am kettle bells / body weight workout 9:15-10am boxing fitness class

Then home, shower, breakfast

11am-3pm work (my own stuff) 3:30-5pm massage

Might do another hour work after that, but otherwise relax

Sunday - maybe a couple hours work, otherwise time with gf, brunch / go out and do something and relax

Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?

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Post by AtHeartEngineer »

impendia wrote: post #14
dahart wrote: post #8

What are you hoping to find out with this question? So called “productive” people do as wide a variety of things on the weekend as everyone else. Some people are productive in 30 hours per week, and some people are productive because they work 80 hours per week. Some people make furniture, some relax to Netflix, some read academic papers, and some get extra sleep. Since we’re on HN, many startup founders spend their…

I am not OP, but I'm interested in this question too. To be honest, I'm not too sure what "everyone else" does on the weekend either, and am curious about that also. Sometimes I end up intending to be productive, but end up more-or-less procrastinating and neither being productive nor genuinely relaxing. I've often wondered whether to attempt to be more disciplined and productive on the weekend (e.g., work, exercise,…

Try using an app like Daylio to track habits and mood. Then try both ways, work your ass off for 4 or 5 days, and then just chill and do whatever for 2-3 days. Then try splitting up your day so X number of hours are hard productivity and the rest of the day is more relaxed. See what works for you.
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