[Jtsummers]

Why impossible? I sleep about 6 hours a night (I can stay in bed longer than that, but I wake up after 6 max), work for about 8 hours, live near-ish the office or work remotely (call it 1 hour total commute, but since I can work remotely my average is lower), 30 minutes for lunch and 30 minutes to get ready before heading to work. That's only 16 hours total, leaving me with 8 more hours in the day. That's a lot of time if I'm not wasting it on HN like right now.

A good workout can be done in 30 minutes, though I prefer about 90 total (core/weights, rowing, running in the non-winter seasons, about 30 minutes of each). Dinner, about 30 minutes to cook and 30 minutes to eat, another 15 max to clean (mostly done while I'm cooking so really usually just 1 minute to put plates in the dishwasher). So that's 2.75, leaving me with 5.25 hours for spending time with my wife, wasting time on HN, reading, or working on side projects.

And that's just the weekdays. Weekends I get 9 hours back since I'm not commuting and working, though some of that goes to yard and house work so realistically call it 7 extra free hours as an average.