| I'm doing this right now. I sometimes feel that I'm not being very productive and should just get a job. Then I look over my daily journal and discover I'm getting quite a lot done. This week I started using Trello with a basic kanban arrangement. When I'm ready for a break from one task, instead of goofing off I just switch to a different one. Eg., if I need a break from coding, I'll read my current book for a while; at the moment I'm going through a stack of books on UI design. I've built one proof of concept, made a lot of progress on another, did each in a language I didn't know before, and I'm working now on another idea using Meteor, which I also didn't know before. Several projects are from ideas I had after starting all this, and I think they could become marketable products. I guess you could say I'm not exactly doing the "leisure" thing since I'm working towards real products, but it's not a definite startup yet either. But now I'm focusing more on the easier projects so I can get something into production. It's been nice working in an ivory tower for a little while, but I'm getting an itch to show people results. And I'm having a great time doing it all. I'm pretty introverted so I don't need that much social interaction, but I have a girlfriend I see every day, do lunch with my old coworkers every week or two, and make sure I get good food and exercise. Several times a week I wake up early enough and watch the sunrise. All of which is just to say: YMMV. |