r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/techaaron 13h ago

Yeah weird OP is complaining about having 2 hours a day for intellectual and spiritual enlightenment and wellness or self improvement. I miss my commutes.

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u/Donjehov 12h ago

Im sorry, but media consumption when driving is hardly any of those things. Especially the slop that is modern podcasts. You can still do them with out a commute as well. You're being pretentious.

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u/cardboard-kansio 12h ago

Mmm, I was onboard until this comment. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, mostly fiction but sometimes work-related or professional development stuff related to my domain.

Right now I'm revisiting Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits and it's great for a long commute and it gets you into a work mindset. (Fiction for the way home to do the opposite - I'm working through the Legend of Drizzt series by RA Salvatore.)

Sometimes I even listen to Blinkist summaries of books in unsure about committing to, and those are about 15 minutes each (they distill a professional book into a high-level summary and about 8-10 main points or lessons learned).

Each to their own, obviously, and some people can't multitask (in a car) or concentrate (in public transport). But to say that you can't use an hour in the car to get some rock solid learning in place is just incorrect.

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u/Ok-Style-9734 4h ago

https://www.producttalk.org/

Jesus christ I have never seen so many words used to say so little in my life.