Common Sense With a Philosophy Degree

Seneca batching emails I've been getting things done for fifty years. Not elegantly. Not with a system. Not with a Sunday reset ritual or a definition of done framework or a two-minute rule for small tasks. Just getting on with it, because the alternative was not getting on with it, and I'm fundamentally lazy enough that if I don't do the hard thing first I'll spend the rest of the day finding reasons not to do it. This is not wisdom. It's self-knowledge in the service of getting the dishes washed before I convince myself they can wait until tomorrow. This week I read a Medium article that told me the same thing. In seven habits. With Seneca. The ArticleIt promised to save me twenty hours a week. Twenty hours. That's half a working week. Two and a half days. The article implied that by following seven habits I would effectively gain an extra two and a half days every seven days, which over a year would give me approximately 1,040 bonus hours, which is forty-three additional days of…