Beware of the productivity illusion

I set out to write a simple “New Year, new me” type of blog post. Bish bash bosh, done and dusted, right? Nope!

After booting up VS Code, I remembered seeing on Robb’s Lens website that my RSS feed was missing the proper meta tag. While looking up how to correctly set it up I fell into the trap.

I can reveal now that I didn’t write that blog post, not a single word. I did however fix my RSS and added two additional feeds that are fully validated, so now you can subscribe to my nonexistant content with Atom, RSS and JSON feeds :D. I also created a new Eleventy filter for my website and did some CSS tidying as I found some broken behavior with images.

Ironically, this post was written on my phone at 10 a.m. after shutting off my desktop PC and giving up for the night (day, morning w/e, sleep patterns are a scam by Big Sleep™).

The thing about this type of “productivity” is that it’s not very productive at all. I didn’t accomplish the task I set out to do. I did get a lot of things done, but I didn’t work on anything I actually needed to do. I didn’t even really have the opportunity to make a choice at any point, I kinda just slipped into gear of working on unrelated semi-adjacent issues. This is pretty common with ADHD and really quite annoying.

I don’t like not having the option to choose, I don’t want to get swept away because I can’t decide what to focus on.

If this resonated with you or you have suggestions on what I could try, please feel free to shoot me a message!