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Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
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Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#12I am going for a hike along the coast on a beautiful spring day with my wife.
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#13Having wild sex with prostitutes.
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#14What 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, piano practice, read "serious" books, etc.), or to embrace relaxing and absolving myself temporarily of any responsibilities.
I would very much welcome any testimonials from anyone who has made either decision!
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#15Having wild sex with prostitutes.
This!
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#16Generally my weekend activities include:
* Sleep * workout * some computer games * grocery shopping * hacker news and some other forums
I read on weekends quite a bit. Currently reading Release It! Design and Deploy Production Ready Software. Outside of weekends, I really only read books during my commute in the morning.
I also wrap up laundry on weekends- bed sheets, towels, clothes.
I do cleaning my apartment on weekdays and so on weekends, everything is pretty clean generally aside from laundry. I will dust and vacuum the apartment and clean the bathroom over a couple days in the week and so it never accumulates to feeling like a big task.
I might go out shopping for clothes or books (there’s an amazon book store in walking distance) with my spouse. Occasionally we go out to eat on weekends.
The kitchen we never have to devote time for on the weekends. My spouse and I have a strict rule to never leave a dirty kitchen overnight. We cook a few times each week in quantities to last the whole week and we promptly wash cookware and dishware.
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#17What 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,…
The reality is that it's a judgement call.
Some people have good health and boundless energy. For such people, spending more hours working can pay off -- at least, in the short run. They may actually be heading towards burnout without realizing it.
Some people don't have that kind of energy. Pushing themselves too hard actually hurts their productivity in the short term.
It can also vary over time for the same person. Maybe some weeks, they can do more, but other weeks, they really need some recharge time.
Wisdom is almost always specific to a particular set of details and is about a person having deep knowledge of that specific situation and acting on it in an informed manner. It tends to not generalize as well as we would like.
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#18On Saturdays, I wake and get to the office by 4am, just like a regular workday. The only difference is I'll leave around 9-10 am (vs 5-6 pm M-F) when the family is awake. Let's me catch up on things I missed during the week.
Sundays I'll try to keep my mind off work but still find myself thinking of things.
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#19I am going for a hike along the coast on a beautiful spring day with my wife.
I have no idea who you are, but I like you already.
Re: Ask HN: What do productive people do on weekends?
#20Usually I'm trying to balance out many things, which makes it more difficult than the weekdays:
- getting more sleep - working on my side startup - getting some form of exercise - reading all the things I've queued up during the week - errands around the house - spending time with family
The weekends, I find, are more hectic than the weekdays. There's no set schedule and it changes every weekend.