Charge yourself, not just your laptop
A lot of computer work involves working with, well, a computer.
By working for long periods of time with computers you learn a few things about taking good care of them:
- Sometimes the battery runs out, so you connect them to the socket.
- Sometimes Chrome lags because there's too many tabs open, so you close them.
- Sometimes you run a piece of software that just takes too much resources, so you close it or choose a less-demanding alternative.
It would make sense to have a similar flow for ourselves, then:
- When your energy runs out, go to sleep.
- When there are too many thoughts running in your mind, let some of them go.
- When you do something too taxing, stop doing it or choose something less demanding.
I wonder why we're taught that the grind is the right way through. It seems to me that grinding any machine without proper maintenance - let alone the human one - is a fool's errand.
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