On being busy
A friend told me about how the culture at CMU is lots of ambitious and driven folks who don’t feel like they’re doing enough unless they’re constantly occupied. So instead of aiming to finish the work they have, they pile on more so that they’re in a constant state of business. Every time I visit SF I come across the idea of a maker/manager or founder schedule: 9-7 work, dinner and chill for 1-2 hours 9-1 more work (sometimes see friends but work before bed still). I constantly find my best work is done in a state of pure productivity between 12-3 am - often letting me finish days worth of work in a couple hours if it’s a really good session. Yet I still consider myself “busy”/blocked off from doing things I want to do from 10-6 because I’m working. If you went to a top school, chances are you met a lot of people who felt busy all the time who also happened to be extremely smart, driven, ambitious and had other extremely desirable qualities. Which might lead you to associate people who
A friend told me about how the culture at CMU is lots of ambitious and driven folks who don’t feel like they’re doing enough unless they’re constantly occupied. So instead of aiming to finish the work they have, they pile on more so that they’re in a constant state of business. Every time I visit SF I come across the idea of a maker/manager or founder schedule: 9-7 work, dinner and chill for 1-2 hours 9-1 more work (sometimes see friends but work before bed still). I constantly find my best work is done in a state of pure productivity between 12-3 am - often letting me finish days worth of wor
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