Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
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Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
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Re: Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
#2So it seems the "secret" to tech-life balance is choosing more life than tech? Don't get me wrong, I'm all about tech-life balance and work-life balance (which this article and the problem in general heavily overlaps with), but the secret is conciously organizing your life to have more life than tech. Part of this is finding a job that allows you to choose life outside of office hours. Having more free mornings to do things not related to tech is probably a symptom of achieving a better tech-life balance.
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#3I’ve been doing this lately. It’s pleasant for sure.
Re: Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
#4Yup. Sometimes, I'll do like 15m of yoga in the morning. i think the key is not to rush it. don't rush your breakfast (if you eat it), don't rush your brushing teeth, your shower, etc.
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#5Alternative: slow afternoons? I mean, my routine usually has me start with tech/work at 6am, but I wrap up around 2:30 and put some hours outdoors or in my other hobbies.
I think the important part is just not spending ALL DAY doing any one thing.
My grandma has a saying - "Everything in moderation, including moderation"
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#6I've been adopting this approach in order to have higher-quality free time. I find that if I wake up early (around 7:30) then I can take an hour or so to myself in the mornings to read, play a game, or work on a personal project, and I have my full brainpower to apply to it. However by the time I get home from work around 6, I don't have nearly as much energy to put in to the same activities, and can't focus as easily or make as much progress.
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#7I'm struck by a couple of things,
Getting up at 4.30am seems excessive and presumably requires going to bed at 8-9pm
I can't imagine doing this with a child
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#8Could we just stop using medium altogether? I just get a pop up asking me to pay $5/mo. Not going to happen.
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#9>“Technology has done nothing but enhance my life. But how you decide to carve out time for yourself is important,” says Nicole Loher, a 26-year-old marketing consultant for Microsoft. “There was a time when I did transition into being that obsessive with the phone and it didn’t feel that great.”
Loher is also a slow-morning devotee and she started her routine a decade ago, frequently waking at 4:30 and spending the hours up to 9 a.m. as “strictly me time.”
So she started this routine when she was 16?
Re: Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance
#10I'm struck by a couple of things, Getting up at 4.30am seems excessive and presumably requires going to bed at 8-9pm I can't imagine doing this with a child
What time do you think little children go to bed?