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(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.”

Sorry if you weren't looking for a reply here, but I've found this to be only partially true self-talk that puts a lot of pressure on oneself. If people were to do an honest time audit, my guess is that most of them would find that they're oversubscribed, even by the non-negotiable parts of life.

had to go through the process of realizing this the last few years, helped immensely to realize i can just plan things and then do them or just do things when i want and then do other things later