fragmented attention

there are days like today where i feel like i haven't accomplished as much as i would have liked.

i was up at 6 o'clock and started the day with a short walk in the park with my girlfriend. we came back home, then i made my coffee and we hung around for a bit.

i knew i had a lot of work that was going to require concentration, but since my girlfriend was there, i preferred to wait a bit until i had the time.

around 10 o'clock, i started responding to some DMs on reddit then sent others until about noon.

i saw an interesting video from DHH today, a clip actually, where he explained why he hated having meetings or discussions with colleagues during the day. it totally resonated with me because i was in a situation where i wasn't able to do deep work at all.

we had constraints and some other obligations during the day which meant we had to spend the afternoon out, then early evening where i couldn't spend much time on the app. this made me a little bit upset because i really wanted to make progress and post updates here.

also a good friend called from france today. a bit out of the blue. but it's always nice.

we also bought a robot. you know, the robot vacuums that mean you no longer have to sweep. my girlfriend was delighted.

but anyway, the discussion we had this evening is that we really need to set aside a room that would serve as an office. at the moment, i work in our bedroom, but now we can see we're getting in each other's way.

so, from now on, after our trip and stay at her parents', i've decided that i'm going to reclaim our upstairs room and even though it costs us a little not to rent it, the space is nice so i'll use it as my office to work in during the day. me and my girlfriend agreed we both need to each have a quiet place where we can work at any time without interruptions. she values flow state and i do too.

i also continued this evening searching for other viral content within my niche and actually found some good ones. i saved them to re-examine them again this week.

10 pm as i'm writing this to you. we're sitting by the waterfront in front of our place. it’s very nice and quiet. i think everything isn't perfect but we're moving forward and we're going to make it no matter what.

see you tomorrow.

edit: just checked my phone and have gotten many replies to my DMs :)

edit 2: DHH’s tweet & video