Prioritization is about relaxation

October 22, 2024 at 12:00 PM

Note: This is not a blog, it's a semi-private digital garden with mostly first drafts that are often co-written with an LLM. Unless I shared this link with you directly, you might be missing important context or reading an outdated perspective.

I had a week of tracking every 30 minute block of the day time — Pomodoro Everything. A couple of those days, every other pomodoro was just sitting quietly and still. Surprisingly, those were the two most productive days, and the most relaxed.

Zooming out made me do a lot more of the right things instead of just more things. A good day is about funneling in and funneling out, and the best ones look like a healthy interplay of both.

Relaxation can be defined and trained. It can be defined as the ability to let go of the mind from expectation of specific outcomes. It’s training is typically meditation on emptiness.