What another great reading over here! I also love the boring part of my morning of organizing Evernote notes from the previous day, or something lost from 2 years ago that makes no sense or feels like another life.
What a pure joy to read this. And sooo relatable, I felt every word.
There’s a lot of repetitive work I used to enjoy too, espeeeecially around databases. And just like you said, it helped me warm up for harder stuff later in the day. It also gave my brain a break in between more difficult things. Because you really can’t spend 8 hours a day making decisions or being creative, that’s just not how we’re built.
Now a lot of my stuff is automated and I sometimes crave something repetitive. Something that feels useful but doesn’t ask for too much from me.
And just writing this now, I’m realizing even more how much context switching I do lately. AI and all the tools I use help a lot, but in between waiting for outputs or running/building things, i’m constantly jumping between tasks with no pause, cause ideas hit all the time.
Things move fast and there’s never that empty space where boredom lives and your brain can just breathe, like when you're doing some manual work :))
Except when i go to bed and then i can’t sleep for an hour because it’s finally quiet enough to process.
this feels like i just wrote a messy diary entry lol.
Not just droll work that is repetitive. I strongly feel that even working on setting up a spreadsheet for like a financial model or just forecasting is something that can give you some short term dopamine hits.
Can you tell more about the CRM part... I really got stuck there a bit curious, if you are really using some CRM system for that or what. I am struggling with a similar problem today.
What another great reading over here! I also love the boring part of my morning of organizing Evernote notes from the previous day, or something lost from 2 years ago that makes no sense or feels like another life.
It's interesting, and I can totally relate - up to a point.
For me, being on the autism spectrum, repetitive, seemingly mindless tasks are pure joy - until my ADHD kicks in and ... oh, look, a squirrel 🐿️
That's why I look back on a million projects where the first half is beautifully perfected, while the second half has never been touched again 😅
What a pure joy to read this. And sooo relatable, I felt every word.
There’s a lot of repetitive work I used to enjoy too, espeeeecially around databases. And just like you said, it helped me warm up for harder stuff later in the day. It also gave my brain a break in between more difficult things. Because you really can’t spend 8 hours a day making decisions or being creative, that’s just not how we’re built.
Now a lot of my stuff is automated and I sometimes crave something repetitive. Something that feels useful but doesn’t ask for too much from me.
And just writing this now, I’m realizing even more how much context switching I do lately. AI and all the tools I use help a lot, but in between waiting for outputs or running/building things, i’m constantly jumping between tasks with no pause, cause ideas hit all the time.
Things move fast and there’s never that empty space where boredom lives and your brain can just breathe, like when you're doing some manual work :))
Except when i go to bed and then i can’t sleep for an hour because it’s finally quiet enough to process.
this feels like i just wrote a messy diary entry lol.
Not just droll work that is repetitive. I strongly feel that even working on setting up a spreadsheet for like a financial model or just forecasting is something that can give you some short term dopamine hits.
Can you tell more about the CRM part... I really got stuck there a bit curious, if you are really using some CRM system for that or what. I am struggling with a similar problem today.
Check out the note I just posted 🙂