Planet CakePHP

Weekends are a weird thing when you love what you are doing. Most weekends I
have one voice in my head that pushes me to work, and another one that tells
me to relax and have some fun.

It's tough, because I always have a lot of ideas for interesting projects, and
weekends are about the only time when I can just hack on something
for the fun of it. And of course, we are also bootstrapping a startup, so that
is very hard to do without putting in some hours over the weekend.

I generally don't have an upfront plan for my weekends, so I mostly just do what
feels right at any given moment, be it some hours of coding, some beach volleyball,
or playing forkmaster with a few friends. There is usually also one
night of hanging out with friends drinking.

This is nothing I'm proud of. It's 2 out of 7 days a week that go by without
a strong vision. These weekends feel more like a "break" than a vacation. There is
little adventure or heroic work ethics that I can look back at when starting out on
Monday.

So for next weekend, I will try to work out a clear plan that will make it a wonderful experience
including some well-defined time for serious work. By having an upfront plan, I expect myself
to be more emerged in both the fun, and the work with less confusion in my head about
what I should be doing at any given moment. Ideally I'll leave the weekend more
refreshed than usual, while still having made a nice dent into my backlog.

After that I might also try a weekend with no computer / iphone access. If that yields
considerably better results, I just need to get my weekly productivity levels high enough
to make this possible.

Yesterday's Productivity

1. Productive work: 2,80 h
2. Busy work: 4,40 h
3. Procrastination: 0,37 h

Time after 6pm: 0 h

271 lines of code added, 172 deleted in 2 projects

• Busy work is still high due to the fact that the box that his site is running on is acting
  up, and I'm working on migrating everything to vps.net.
• There was a beach volleyball tournament right after work, so no after-hour working
• Procrastination levels are still excellent. I played one short game of SC2 and one game of foosball,
  that's reasonable for my taste.

--fg

PS: How are you spending your weekends? What would you like to change?