| Daily routine during the work week: Wake up ~05:30. Eat breakfast at home while catching up on HN and Apple News. Make lunch. Take meds. Brush teeth. Shower. Drive to train station. Ride train for ~45 minutes. Catch up on email and organize tasks for the day (I use Todoist for daily task tracking). Arrive at work. Unpack laptop and get setup. Get coffee. Coding + actual project work for ~2 hours. Daily Standup at 10am PST. Visit therapist every Wednesday morning. Meetings/more work for ~90 minutes. Lunch around noon. Meetings and more development work in the afternoon after lunch. Leave work ~17:30. ~45 minute ride home on the train where I listen to music and/or podcasts or read to decompress. Come home. Eat dinner with spouse and kid. ~20:00 get kid to bed, read stories for ~45 minutes. Spend time with spouse. Bedtime ~22:30. Weekends: Usually a bit more flexible, aside from Saturdays where I take my kid to ice skating class at 12:15. I usually wake up around 06:00 on weekend days to make breakfast and watch cartoons with my kid while I let my spouse sleep in. I spend my free time playing piano/guitar and reading. |