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I feel like a lot of people think about time wrong. Been bugging me since I talked about side projects the other day and was complaining about it. I had to remind myself that at no point in my adult life has time been given to me, or materialised out of nowhere. You have to actively create time.

(Talking to myself here) If you want to ship some side project, it is on you to create the time for that to happen in. Similarly, new productivity tools don’t mean more time is going to become available. Never has, never will. The world will find more work for you. That’s the way gravity pulls.

You have to resist that pull and invest energy into making sure you have the time to do the things you want to do. So I annoyed myself when I said “I don’t have time” because it’s not true. I didn’t make the time. Me. Through my decisions. I should have said “I haven’t made the time yet.”