Thanks for the advice. Pretty much exactly what I’m trying to do. To be quite honest, I don’t do more than 1h of leetcode per week - been trying to spend much more time working on a startup with a friend. But even that is so hard. After a 10-5 workday, and being 9-10 by the time I’m done with everything else, I’m dead tired and it’s hard to work up motivation even when it’s something I love to do (write code where I determine what I’m writing).
> been trying to spend much more time working on a startup with a friend.
Jesus, an evenings-and-weekends startup plus a full time job and leetcode and 2hrs(!!!) at the gym per day?
One thing you're going to need to accept is that there isn't enough time for everything you want to do. In a day. In a life. Consider dropping some of this stuff. My god, you don't even have kids eating 20+ hours a week like lots of people do!
Days are never going to get longer, and your life is only getting shorter. Maybe you operate like this for a little while at the start, but you're going to have to prune at some point. You can't fit a gallon of water in a thimble.
My advice would be to congratulate yourself on fitting much more productive stuff into a day than almost anyone else I’ve ever seen (sustainably). Don’t stress, and if you want to try to fit something else in, use a vacation day.
This. "I'm highly productive all but 3 hours every weekday and get a good night's sleep 9-6, help". WTF. This whole thread is crazy to me. "I barely have any downtime during the week" yes! That's adulthood (well, it was high school, too, but there was that sweet, sweet break of college that I didn't appreciate enough when I had it...) and it's the reason sane countries mandate 4+ weeks of paid vacation per year. Work weeks are a grind (throw kids in the mix and tell me how much time you have left then!) and weekends are barely enough to almost recover and take care of all the important things you were neglecting during the week. Multiple entire weeks off per year are required to have actual leisure and something like full recovery from the grind.
vanviegen actually has a great point. You're already spending full-time learning. In my case, I'm not learning anything at my daily job anymore. Realitically, I'm more often teaching.
