Problems - Wednesday, April 1

April 2, 2020•111 words

For deep work, I want to be offline in airplane mode. This should be a simple switch, where I precommit to being offline, then can track this offline time.
It takes 15m to get into some state of solid doing, when I can't do that due to being tired or so I want to spend that time knocking off random errands that are laid out for me, OR rest and be bored. Not be in a state of work but not really.
For budgeting, it is somewhat annoying that I have to have two for YNAB - one for local currency and and one for international (USD etc).

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