The hours that are yours and the attention you bring to them: rest, hobbies, mental bandwidth, and the week as it really is.
What this topic answers
The questions we are working through, in your words.
- Where does my week actually go?
- How do I protect an evening?
- Why do free hours feel unusable?
- What is a hobby for?
Read in this order
Guides first, then the pieces that explain, then essays and stories.
The last ten percent
On the attention left over when you get home, and why it shapes more of a life than the hours themselves.
The case for a hobby you are bad at
On doing something purely for its own sake, in a profession built on getting things right.
In preparation
Commissioned and being written. They appear above when they are ready.
Work it through
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Where do my 168 hours actually go, and where would I like them to go?
Ten dimensions of a medical life, for private reflection.
What doctors do with the hours that belong to them.
One hundred and sixty-eight hours, as doctors actually spend them.
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