{"id":1728,"date":"2013-05-11T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/05\/11\/a-little-intermission-its-slowly-dawning-on-me\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T06:16:13","slug":"a-little-intermission-its-slowly-dawning-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/05\/11\/a-little-intermission-its-slowly-dawning-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A little intermission.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s slowly dawning on me how much I\u2019ve been surrounding myself with the culture of productivity. All the TODO lists, GTD techniques, lifehacks and tricks mean nothing. Just nothing. These are all solutions to a wrong problem.<\/p>\n

Thing is: if you keep focusing on something and keep failing, it\u2019s not the issue of you trying in a wrong way. It\u2019s the issue of you not focusing on what\u2019s important for you. Once you determine what you want<\/em> to do with your life, you don\u2019t need any time management techniques to do it. <\/strong>Jeff Atwood summed it up perfectly in his blog post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For the things in my life that actually mattered, I\u2019ve never needed any to-do list to tell me to do them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He gives a more practical implication of the above, too:<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t wake up every day and, using your 100% original equipment God-given organic brain, come up with the three most important things you need to do that day \u2013 then you should seriously work on fixing that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I\u2019m really tired of the chase, of the rat race of today\u2019s life. That\u2019s why I quit Facebook and Instagram, that\u2019s why I\u2019ve blocked Hacker News on all my computers – simply because I don\u2019t want to be surrounded by proof that everyone else is having fun constantly. Life is a mix of good and bad – and I want it to stay that way.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a little story to be told here. A friend dropped in for a breakfast a few days ago; and she took the opportunity to snap a quick Instagram to show how much fun we were having. Sure, it was a really beautiful morning, but the photo obviously didn\u2019t mention the important things that we discussed. That colorful photo didn\u2019t mention that she got barely any sleep the previous night or that she was disappointed some of her new friends hitting on her. All it said was \u201cwe\u2019re having fun\u201d.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said it many times, and I\u2019ll say it again: this is not real life. This is some kind of fucking phony glittery fake. This is also the very reason I\u2019m still using a film camera: because it means no one dictates what I should photograph. I don\u2019t care how much likes or reblogs I get – I don\u2019t think I even remember how to check that. I\u2019d rather get one person to say my writing is inspiring that to get 100 likes under the blog posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little intermission. It\u2019s slowly dawning on me how much I\u2019ve been surrounding myself with the culture of productivity. All the TODO lists, GTD techniques, lifehacks and tricks mean nothing. Just nothing. These are all solutions to a wrong problem. Thing is: if you keep focusing on something and keep failing, it\u2019s not the issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}