Dr. Cal Newport

but that's when my serious exercise now is always pre-dinner, then I wanna be up in our room by 10.

And then at that point, I don't track.

So I have insomnia issues, which actually has been a key driver of a lot of the things I think about, especially with slow productivity, is I'm very wary because I can, without any control on my own, just find myself unable to sleep sometimes.

Fall asleep or stay asleep?

Fall asleep.

Yeah.

I mean, I used to get it really bad.

Not so bad now, but it comes and goes.

That really affected the way I thought about productivity.

Because it seemed like to me the definition of just I get after it with a bunch of stuff wasn't really on the table because if my notion of productivity depended on me like every day being able to just like hammer on a bunch of stuff, I'm very busy, I have lots of commitments, what would happen if I couldn't sleep?

I wanna be able to do that.

So I drifted naturally towards a definition of productivity, which was, it doesn't really matter if you work tomorrow, but it is important that like this month you work, like writing a book.

It doesn't matter if you work on your book chapter tomorrow in particular, but like this month you have to spend a lot of time working on it.

So it was like an insomnia compatible definition of productivity was sort of morphed into this idea of slow productivity, taking your time with it.

So it's interesting.

So like sleep issues,

really shaped the way I thought about work and put me on these much longer time scales of productivity.

Try not to be dependent on any particular day being critical to what you do.

I don't want the high stress situation.

I don't want the like, I'm just going to 10 hours a day for the next 10 days, we're going to make this deal happen.