Why you should manage your energy, not your time

The title is a little off, because what the article is basically arguing for is doing less because you will be more productive, rather than explicitly managing your energy levels directly.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams (yeah, I know, I know), wrote a book some years ago where he suggested that if you optimise for energy first, everything else becomes easier. Food, sleep and work choices should be around optimising your energy levels because without energy, everything else is harder. That makes more sense to me than managing my time.

Both viewpoints complement each other, and it's an excellent and worthy riposte to the death-march culture dominant in tech. We should lead the way on this more as an industry.

I've been doimg this for 4 years and it's great. I've not had a successful job in 4 years. It's easy to make plausible complaints about the relaxed uber productive guy who works like 8 hours a day and eats away from his desk and lifts consistently. Must be on drugs or trying to F somebody over etc, are things I hear. Tall poppy syndrome is real. I've left the last 2, one took me to a room and said I need to "be more excited"... maybe he meant get Adderall or something. Self directed work is much much better. Indeed, in 2018 with eng skills there are a million ways to do it.