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how to find time after work hey you can
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say hi YouTube you can say hi YouTube
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okay you can say hi to them can you can
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you say please like the video subscribe
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super thanks me my software development
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colleagues often ask me where do I get
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all the time for reading all the
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techbooks and articles watching
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conference talks and listening to
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podcasts I analyzed my consumption for
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November December and here is what I did
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and that's only Tech rated content all
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right I bet a lot of you are getting
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excited right now also I do want to
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notice something you guys at this point
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get your Tech articles by listening to
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me read the tech articles hi YouTube
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subscribe yeah thank you thank you for
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saying that that's facts uh listen to
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seven podcast episodes five hours
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listened to a half of an audio book got
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them I got a half and I actually have
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three qus of an audio book done actually
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I only have like two hours left of Dune
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book two uh watch six EP uh videos uh
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talks from uh some conferences six hours
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read three books 12 hours what are you
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reading like a children's book what kind
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of book can you read in four 4 hours uh
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read plenty of articles on the internet
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and offline medium okay well come on
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medium come on I paid for medium okay I
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paid for medium just to be the most
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disappointed person in that you know of
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right speed reading well that's 60 hours
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uh for two months so that seems huge and
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30 hours per month seems reasonable
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which means around 7 hours per week
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seems doable in one hour per day that
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sounds easy that's 1 hour per day that
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it has to be available for learning wait
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a minute should I sacrifice one hour of
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my precious spare time for learning
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things that I need at work no way uh I
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hear this argument all the time I hear
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it all the time and I do want to just
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throw in something a little bit here
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which is that you shouldn't look at it
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this way in general if this is your
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thought if this is how you think of it
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when you hear this statement I want you
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to do a little reorienting here it's not
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about what you need for work in the
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moment I want you to work and learn
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things in which is in the area you want
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to be in right that you want to be an
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expert in something that you want to
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take a lot of time in and be able to do
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that for a decade long experience right
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and so you shouldn't look at learning as
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something that only complement what
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you're doing at your job right now it
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should be where you want to be right
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keep pushing towards that one thing and
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then it doesn't matter about your
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current job it matters about where
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you're going to be and it just makes
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learning 10 times more
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exciting right it just does you don't
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have to because you don't you need that
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time for writing blog posts coding and
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to prepare conference docks it's not
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free time AKA time where I can do what I
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want for parents care and play with the
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children uh it's time between working uh
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working hours free time and sleeping
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time let's call it Duty time isn't there
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a better term for that Duty time I'm not
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sure Duty time is the time that we have
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spent for going to work purchase uh
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purchase food cook dinner going to sleep
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and so on all activities that we do have
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to do besides your primary work okay
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yeah life responsibilities okay the
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trick is to refine some of the duty time
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for learning time okay for example uh
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commuting every day 2 by 45 minutes to
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my workplace and back home dude right
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then and there right here you know what
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you should also consider doing leave the
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Bay Area okay Walnut Creek ain't worth
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the commute in to San Francisco okay
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ain't no way I
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dude commuting is nuts okay the fact
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that we built a life around everybody
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living in the exact same city or city
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superplex where they just commute all
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day is just insane when I was living in
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the Bay Area I tried to move as close as
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I could to my job I was like 15 to 18
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minutes away and I was considered like a
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super short commute it was just the
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worst even those 15 to 20 minutes
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depending on sometimes traffic got real
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bad it was like 22 minutes uh even with
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that it was such an emotional drain it
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was so bad sure I'd listen to podcast
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and all that crap but still I hated it I
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hated it 5 minutes to get to the train
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station with my bike 10 minutes to wait
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for the connecting trains 25 minutes on
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the trains 15 minutes to get uh from the
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train to my working place and vice versa
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that alone makes 90 minutes of Duty time
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per day or 80 almost freely available
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learning time I don't like listening to
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podcasts while I'm riding my bike which
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makes 10 minutes a day that I can't use
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okay safety purposes I like it uh I also
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love cooking uh but I also have to clean
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up the kitchen afterwards let's say that
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uh takes me 40 minutes 40 minutes of
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Duty time 40 minutes to uh 40 minutes
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time for watching videos of conference
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talks uh you know I always have a hard
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time mixing activities you know what I
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mean and what I mean by mixing
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activities is that you can really only
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get the most out of
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something if you're engaged right uh
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there's there's a whole thing that's
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kind of going on with this part like if
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you love cooking you should do the
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cookings you know what I mean
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there's something about taking and
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constantly splitting up our time to
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always maximize it that I think kind of
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robs you of the joy of the activity
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you're doing and really what you get out
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of out of it right like I love uh I I
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really want well actually something I
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really want to do is get really good at
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grilling and so when I do grillings like
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I turn off everything I don't look at
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anything it's about just being in that
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one moment doing that one thing super
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super well right and it's just you know
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griller confirmed I love the idea of
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grilling right I want to be that dude
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mult I think multitasking is just I
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honestly think it's bad for your soul I
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think it's really really like it's
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something you got to be careful of um
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there's something about being engaged in
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the thing you're doing that's really
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good uh if I want to I read in the
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evening okay that's free time so it
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doesn't count or listening to an Audi
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book to calm down uh or before falling
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asleep yes that's Duty time see it's
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this it's this constant like trying to
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get everything out of stuff uh that
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gives me easily another 30 minutes per
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day I can easily transform 2.5 hours of
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Duty time per day that I can use for at
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least 1 hour of learning time I don't
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even have to use half of the available
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time that's good because I'm not good at
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listening while I cope vegetables with a
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sharp knife I'm not sure what cope
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vegetables
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means I'm not sure what this phrase
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means but it seems exciting I think it
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also depends on the right tools for
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using Duty time efficiently uh too for
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example I can't do any housekeeping
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fully capable or with a stationary
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desktop PC so I've invested some money
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in optimizing my media consumption a
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smart tablet Dell ven Venue 8 Pro for
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watching talks while working in the
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kitchen and traveling by train luckily a
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few sites allow you to download videos
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offline for viewing a smartphone with
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plenty of
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storage
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okay uh two uh because uh one for the
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spare if the other one is charging
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Bluetooth headphones Phillips
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sb4000 for high quality Interruption
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free lising what what is this wired
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headphones with good noil shielding all
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right Bluetooth some Bluetooth all right
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if I'm on the move I mostly use my
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smartphone and wired earphones uh at
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home it depends if kids are around while
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I'm doing work I use the headset and
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bone conduction headphones what the hell
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is bone conduction uh otherwise headsets
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I also think it doesn't matter if you're
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100% concentrated on all the stuff you
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consume this way you're always getting
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key facts or main ideas it's really
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important information will be spared to
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be consumed in my free time anyways
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because it's worthwhile for important
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stuff I write down notes and a notebook
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that I have almost always on me these
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notes will be uh will be hopefully F uh
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featured in some upcoming blog posts um
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I don't know so I I take a really really
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really really different approach to this
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I'm going to give you kind of my
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Approach right after this last sentence
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and I think it's different there's
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plenty of time out there that wants to
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be uh that wants to be spent well update
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2023 I still do uh do it this way and
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can keep up with the news and it and
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more what I would now recommend practice
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listening to audio in at least twice the
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speed as the original to get used to
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that increase the speed by 0.1 every
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month okay so I'm I'm I'm I'm going to
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go with two things okay I'm going to go
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with the philosophical thing and I'm
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going to go with the Practical thing uh
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number one philosophically there's
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definitely like a heavy tone of like
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consumerism in here in the sense that
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it's just like a constant consumption
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the point is to constantly be consuming
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something at all points like you're
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you're just
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nonstop like life gluttony and so I do
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think that there is something very
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worrisome about that in general I've
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even been trying to practice not listen
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to anything and just being okay with
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silence right like constantly trying to
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be intentional in the thing I am doing
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and so the constant consumption can lead
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you into this life of constantly needing
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consumption right you kind of almost
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develop a dependency on consuming itself
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all form of consumption is in some sense
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an addictive trait right uh no matter
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how much you don't want to agree with
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that that's fine I don't care this is my
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take not your take but I think that
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there's some like high level of
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something in there it's like a stimulus
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addiction yeah exactly um but second
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like more practical purpose thing I have
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been trying to do the opposite of what's
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being said here uh instead of just
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constantly maximizing every fractional
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second everything doing something uh for
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good portions of the day I will do a
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singular activity with all might and
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strength and I refuse myself to uh kind
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of go off the rails even when I'm
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waiting for CI CI is uh what's it called
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takes two minutes I will watch logs I
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try not to let myself become distracted
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and if I have something to program as
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I'm watching the logs go I go back and
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program that thing right so that my way
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my next run because right now I'm doing
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some CI work right I'm just like doing
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the thing I'm not going on Twitter while
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it's building I'm not changing my
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YouTube list while I'm doing I'm not
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listening to Great asmin gold takes
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while I'm I'm doing it we're not
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listening to Kit Boga scam the scammers
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I'm just doing the thing while I do it
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and I find that by doing that for like 4
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hours a day it's equivalent of doing
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other things for 8 hours a day which
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opens up a huge amount of time to then
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do also focused learning you know what I
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mean so that way I can do super focused
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learning on something else now when I'm
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doing something that's really boring and
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I don't care and I'm just fine and I
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want like I usually set set aside my
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morning times to listen to podcasts and
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stuff while just doing some basic work
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and kind of just adjusting things then
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I'll do that I have like my kind of
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mixed my mixed area to get caught on
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stuff and then my focus time to really
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be successful at stuff and so my focus
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time comes afterwards usually later in
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the day it helps me it makes me feel
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more I think awake and everything so for
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like the last four hours of work I'm
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very focused then after that I go really
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focused with just the kids and the wife
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and then I want to focus on dinner and
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cleaning up and then I focus like I just
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focus at one thing at a time and then I
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sit down with my kids and read them 45
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minutes Wheel of Time book four right
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now and then I just kind of just keep on
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doing this like very high focused no
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Mindless approach and that's that so
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there you go it's just something I've
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been thinking of which is almost the
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opposite of this article and I feel like
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I accomplish all the things he
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accomplishes I've read four books in the
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last year but the books were 5 600 pages
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long you know what I mean so it's like
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it's like a different approach to life I
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would say I don't know I'm not convinced
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The Continuous consumption is good but I
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am convinced that being focused time is
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good you know like just doing the thing
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I don't know I feel like you'll use less
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time this is why I never uh never ever
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listen to music while I'm working I find
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myself annoyed that any of my brain
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Cycles are going to uh the music and
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working interesting yeah I've been
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turning off music a lot lately too uh do
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you do audio books I have done a lot of
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audiobooks yes um during I like I said I
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have that morning to kind of I call it
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distracted time it's an intentional
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distracted time it's where I just listen
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to things and kind of just like just do
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these tasks that I know I have to do
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that are just they feel very brainless
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right uh anyways I do music but no
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lyrics uh trying to C right now would
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you please keep it down a little bit
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absolutely uh the brain needs downtime
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let's see I do some of my best thinking
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don't laugh in the
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bathroom uh especially when showering
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yeah showering really helps because you
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so the reason why that the reason why
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that happens is you've developed a habit
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in the shower of not being able to
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consume and you actually just unlock
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your brain's ability to do thinking I
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know this sounds really weird but that's
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what I mean that's what most the world
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was like I I do think that that's why we
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see some really amazing writings from
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Over the thousands of years things that
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have lived for thousands of years
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observations on life stories and all
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that kind of stuff because they had more
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time to just sit and do a thing without
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all the continuous distractions I feel
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like we're just going to get less and
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less of that as time you know as as we
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just have just pure constant
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distractions it's tough do one thing do
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it well and do it until you're done yeah
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showering is garbage collection
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confirmed yeah that's why I do my best
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thinking I feel like sometimes in the
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shower cuz it's almost like like a form
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of meditation you know what I mean it's
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meditation because it's like I cannot do
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any other thing other than thinking on a
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singular topic thank you for coming to
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my TED Talk the
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name is it's odd that you're you know
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it's it's kind of odd that you're
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watching me on Twitch probably while
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working and I'm telling you to focus uh
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you know I'd really appreciate if you
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maybe stick around for my portion of the
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day and then other people's portion also
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you know you can also check out some
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other people but you know make sure you
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also have time to you know do the Thing
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by itself okay don't don't get too
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distracted cool stream thanks see you um
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the name is the prime J
