Sisyphus, Happy to Own a Treadmill Desk

On treadmill. Yesterday was 3rd day in a row, walking at least 10 miles, mostly on the tread, mostly while playing poker. 

The pursuit of personal records, plural, will suffer in the face of certain monolithic efforts, like walking a lot, or playing poker, which I think is the most draining.

I guess he decisions themselves are difficult, not individually, but cumulatively. I say maybe because poker is mostly boring the way I do it. I'm in it for money, as ostensibly most players are, but I feel I take this to extreme, never playing against good players, because there are always terrible terrible players I can play mindlessly against, on 20 simultaneous tables, while treadmilling & listening to sports, &c.

All of that ends up feeling like a job, but then anything that's not creative work, specifically directing films & writing half the time, also feels like a job. 

So but I banged out he ten miles pretty early in the day yesterday but was so drained that I got lazy, watched a bunch of TV.

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Not sure that I should have a TV. I guess I don't. My brother who lives with me does. But wtf am I even talking about -- I wasn't even watching TV on a physical TV, but my computer.

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Even better than killing my television -- I have an iOS alarm clock method that I find great for productivity, so great it even incorporates passive entertainment or strategic disengagement, which I feel separates it from the lamer parody of itself, the pomodoro technique.

iOS snoozes for nine minutes. We are just gonna bounce from activity to different activity every nine minutes. Don't worry though if that sounds too fast, obviously you can find a tomato timer or something & set it to however long.

But you only need the nine minutes to cap your "leisure" or strategic disengagement time. Nine minutes of TV only, then AT LEAST nine minutes away from TV, then you can go right back to your show or your video game or whatever form your mental fap takes.

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Definitely, definitely when I do this method I at least know I'm not wasting half of my time. Before I started to tabulate all this shit, I'm sure it was higher -- & because we don't tally this shit as a people -- & because we're ego driven apes, we all slip into modes of unproductivity closer to 100% than 50.

& once I get it to 50, then I'll cut it. 30% fapping bullshit. 20. 10. Where's Maslow? What happens to a person when they don't waste any time?