The No Screen Challenge

2/30.

Mental detox has started: I have filled an entire paper with things on the subject "Things that asks me about my time". Now my job is to distill this list and find out the why, what and how. Right now it feels like a completely random list of things without any connection but with some work I should be able to find a subset within all these topics that is my core interest somehow. I'm very much looking forward to find an answer on all this... because right now I have no clue what the answer may be.

Could you elaborate a bit more on that? Sounds interesting. Are you time-boxing different things so that you are limiting the time spent on things according to how important these things are with respect to your long-term goals?


Edit:
It turned out 20 things/projects were just pure random things, unrelated to each other but 15 other things shared a common theme, which indeed matches my core interest. Seven other things/projects were in a grey zone in the sense that they were touching the common theme indirectly, which makes it better to focus on the other things instead. That said, out of 42 things/projects, 27 of them can be removed and more focus can be put on the other projects. Feels like a good start! Now I can continue thinking on why I'm even interested in these things. With some work I should be able to define a motto that can guide me in the future when I evaluate whether I should start to work on a new project or not.

 

Oh, no I didn’t have them all going on at all, I was just counting every potential task I could do, that I more or less have thought to do some time when time is right. For example, I have a book about topology and reading that would be one thing. Then I have a bunch of inductors in my lab because I’ve wanted to build a dcdc-regulator... Problem is, all these projects take up mental space in my mind and many of them don’t even share a common goal, so it just felt like a big mess. So why not write down every single thing you could do and try to see the big picture? Then clean it up. That’s what I did. Soon I’m going throw away a bunch of things as well so that I will never have to think about some projects again.

 

3/30

 

5/30

 

0/30.

My wife and I had our first night together since we got kids seven years ago

 

At least no reset I’ve done lately has been due to any binging in front of the screen, just some slight fails (<1h).

I can’t really understand how I could choose to live the way I did a few years ago - binging in front of the screen several times a week, either to porn, coding or both. The worst nights, I just got around two hours of sleep...

 

1/30.

Good job

 

That’s both impressive and inspiring, really good job! Keep it up!