{"id":16965,"date":"2018-02-07T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=16965"},"modified":"2018-02-07T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:59:21","slug":"morning-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/02\/07\/morning-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning work"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>For years now, my usual morning routine has gone roughly like this:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n  <li>Wake up.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Turn on my iPad mini.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Look at Google News, and read any articles that look interesting. Post some of them to Facebook and Twitter.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Read whichever of my regular webcomics have posted that day.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Read Facebook, responding to posts as I go, and reposting some linked-to articles on Facebook and Twitter.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Get out of bed.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Have breakfast, shave, shower, get dressed, start my day.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>I like this approach and find it generally interesting and informative and enjoyable. But there are a couple of problems with it, such as:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>It sometimes takes several hours, which means I get a late start on my day.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I don\u2019t get anything else done in the mornings.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Partly as a result of that, I often don\u2019t get around to starting my daily repeating tasks (like Duolingo and labeling photos) until late at night, when I\u2019m half asleep. Often, I don\u2019t get around to those tasks at all.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was talking with Mary Anne recently, and she talked about doing items from her task list first thing after waking up. And I thought, huh, maybe I should try that.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m not a morning person. It takes me a long time to get up to speed after waking up, and I generally work better in afternoons and evenings. But there are some relatively low-braining-requirement tasks that I can do shortly after waking up, like reading (some kinds of) fiction, or labeling photos.<\/p>\r\n<p>I tried it the other morning, and got some useful work done first thing. But then I tried to do my usual routine <em>after<\/em> that, which meant I got an even later start on my day than usual.<\/p>\r\n<p>All of which is leading me to the conclusion that yet again, my Facebook habits have reached the point where I\u2019m spending more time there than I\u2019m comfortable with.<\/p>\r\n<p>So I\u2019m gonna take a break from Facebook for a while. That\u2019s complicated by the fact that I have dozens of open tabs waiting to be posted there, and the fact that I have a couple of regular weekly features that I post (old family photos and pictures of my stuffed animals) that I\u2019m not willing to give up on. So I might do some posting even if I\u2019m not reading other people\u2019s posts, and that probably means I\u2019ll read comments on my posts, and I doubt I\u2019ll manage to entirely stop myself from reading other people\u2019s posts. So \u201cbreak\u201d may be overstating things. But at least I\u2019ll try to reduce my levels of engagement there.<\/p>\r\n<p>I should make clear that I really like Facebook in many ways. It\u2019s a great source of news and information for me, and I love being able to engage with far-flung friends in a lightweight way, seeing what people are up to and responding with a quick click of a button. But if I let it, it will take up all of my time, and there\u2019s too much else I want to get done.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates","category-social-networking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16967,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions\/16967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}