I can’t work 100 hr weeks anymore

Keeping up with keeping up, no more. Now that I'm doing my masters and working full time, it's unsustainable. It'll become even less sustainable, as time goes by, and as my family gets older. I have to come to terms with this.

It wasn't a recent thing, working ridiculous hours. My day job hours have been static - I'm a 8-5 person. Sometimes I skip lunches. Timezones! The work hours outside my day job, are the ones that spiked up. It began with learning more about philosophy, keeping up with small AI projects. Watching Yannic Kilcher youtube videos became working on a startup

The time I spent started adding up quickly. Enough that I left my last job to do side hustle full time. It's fun, it is addicting. But beyond that, the way technology was going. The panic, the anxiety. Feeling like I'm going to be left behind. Quickly, I hit an upperbound on my time. I still wanted to spend time with my family, I still needed to workout and read. I only had 100 hours.

I'm not giving up though. Just because I have much, much less time doesn't mean I have to eschew results. I just need to start becoming more practical. I should pick one tiny step towards by goal, a manageable. one hour chunk. And i need to execute.

Today I was organizing my lab. I had my niece over for supper, watching me. I was explaining what I was putting away, and the thought process behind my bolt binning organization (there is none).

This is really a stacking problem. When my niece is slightly older, she can help me out with my hobbies. I can hang out with her while doing it. Honestly, if what I'm doing is not cool enough to keep a curious kid entertained, it isn't cool enough for me to do personally.

If I only have one hour, then I only have one hour. I'll make that hour count, and be consistent through it. I mean, stocko seems to manage just fine!

What are my actual goals?

My actual goal is to build an actual robot. I've actually made good progress towards this, until i started my masters. I need to design a simple linear actuator/joint and build it! If I can manage a single test print a day, I'll be successful. A shipped robot by the end of this year, on my spare time.

And that, I will do!