| 06:00 - Alarm (wife is up at 5:40) 06:05 - Coffee. Check email/slack/rollbar/etc for anything urgent. 06:15 - Local news for weather/traffic, HN and national/world news check. 06:30 - Shave, shower 06:55 - Eat breakfast with my wife. 07:10 - We leave for work and I drop my wife off at her office. I listen to my daily podcasts in the car. My drive to the local office is 15 minutes so on those days I finish my podcasts at my desk. The head office is 1 hour away, so I can finish them all on the drive. I try to finish all communication tasks and all error/task/planning triage at the start of the day. The rest of the day is for coding and whatever meetings I have to attend. I try to break my coding into 1-1.5 hour chunks so that meetings don't hurt my flow as much. My calendar is pretty free since we are a small team and try to respect each other's time. Lunch time (other than time spent eating) is spent either in meetings or in meditation/on a walk. Back home at 5:30 after picking my wife up and we fix and eat dinner together. We'll both do some work in the evenings if we need to, but not every night. Usually just enough to finish off what was in progress at the end of the day. We are in bed by 9:00, reading until lights out at 10. For me the set schedule helps me transition my mental mode between work and family times. And since we usually commute together, my wife and I are on the same schedule. It helps keep us from being in 2 different modes at the same time. |