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…If you have to be done by 5:00, it’s maybe counterintuitive notion, but for people like me who like to work, you can really fill the day with fluff of work. And if you have to be done by 5:00, you’re going to have to do the deep work and get it done, really focus singular work. And then you’re just going to cut off all the pressure- It just keeps you honest. It keeps you honest because you can squander one day, you can squander two days, but if I squander a whole week, I feel terrible. Now, that’s just some drive I have in me where I feel content and full meaning if I actually do stuff that matters, if I can look back upon the week and go like, “That was a nice week.” Really, we moved forward. Maybe we didn’t get done, but we moved forward and everything got better. And I think kids really helped just time bucks things in that way. And a lot of people need that because I find just so much of the celebration of overwork to be so tiresome. Oh, I work 60 hours or 80 hours, 100 hours a week, and just like, first of all, no, you don’t. No, you don’t. Those 80 hours are full of all sorts of fluff that you label work, but that I would laugh at, and that most people laugh at, that you would laugh at if you actually did the analysis of where’s that time going. Most of the important stuff that have to be done is done in these uninterrupted chunks of two hours here or four hours there or five hours there. The hard part is making sure you get them in the whole piece. So don’t give me that. There’s time enough. And also, what’s so important that it ranks above continuing your lineage? I think there’s just some ancient honor in the fact that, again, this DNA that’s sitting on this chair traveled 30,000 years to get here, and you’re going to squander all that away just so you can send a few more emails. There is something that’s also hard to convert into words of just the kind of fun you can have just playing with your kids. I don’t know what that on the surface it’s like, I can have that kind of fun just playing video games by myself, but no, it’s like there’s something magical about it, right?…

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