Here I am on a Friday night writing a blog post. Why? I blame a combination of covid and weekend conditioning. Covid means I'm indoors, and the response of my locality to covid is entirely out of my control, so I will focus on the weekend effect. # The weekend effect Not wanting to be productive, because it's "the weekend." This is a long-standing habit that feels like it originated during elementary school and was later reenforced by college and employee life. Back when I was freelancing and had no set schedule I would often make a point of noticing that I did not know which day of the week it was. This was an amazing feeling. It was a feeling of clarity, that the only information worth thinking about was what to work on, not what day it was, what time it was or some other minutiae. Here's a non-exhaustive list of other things i could be working on right now: - Completing the damn migration of this blog. - Researching and developing an automated crypto trading strategy. - Learning a language - Creating a tab management plugin which syncs your tabs to a local sqlite database (more on this another time) - Adding features to BrowserParrot - ~~Exercising~~ (This I actually did earlier today, so I will exclude it) - etc ## A solution? Not sure. Perhaps the answer is to hang out with more workaholics or retired people. Neither of these groups thinks much about weekends.