My current lifemaxxing stack:
- 2:32 a.m. Wake up, fumble my way to the bathroom
- 2:33 a.m. Scan X to see what I missed
- 4:33 a.m. Hear a loud noise upstairs. Listen intently to see if it's my five-year-old or an intruder who decided to climb and break through an upstairs window, as opposed to an easier lower-stairs window or door. Could it have possibly been a squirrel jumping on the roof, or a bunch of rats that had been making a nest in my attic and I'm going to get that HEPA virus or whatever it's called raining down on me and my kids? Maybe it was a branch. If branches are falling, that means a tree could fall. There goes our house. Does a tree fall into the house? Is that covered by insurance? Or are we going to be living in a van down by the river?
- 5:00 a.m. Poke around on my screen, trying to find the snooze section of my iPhone. If I hit the wrong side of my phone, there goes my morning, there goes my day, there goes my week, there goes my month, there goes my life.
- 5:10 a.m. Hit snooze again.
- 5:20 a.m. Turn off alarm, push self out of bed, fumble around again in the dark looking for gym clothes. Open a drawer, hit chin, grab shirt. There's a 50/50 chance I put the shirt on the right way, and every time I put it on the wrong way.
- 5:30 a.m. Drink cold coffee, read.
- 6:00 a.m. Garage gym. Thank you Ladder app. Reach for a 25 lb weight in a very regular way I've been doing my whole entire adult life. Feel a pop, a twinge in the middle of my back. I can't move, I can't breathe, and I've only done one set in my workout. How am I ever gonna get to my health goals if my back can't even pick up a 25 lb weight and maybe twist in an awkward way?
- 7:00 a.m. Kids are up. Time to spend the morning with them and figure out what am I going to make them for breakfast? Maybe they won't remember what they had yesterday because it was easy, so I'm going to make it again. Jedi dad, Jedi mind trick saying, "No, we had that last week." It never works.
- Open Slack as I'm making breakfast. Open emails as I'm making breakfast. Remember, I have two pitch meetings I need to prepare for. Ping Claude, tell Claude to prepare for these pitch meetings. Make no mistakes. If you do, my life is over; thereby, your life is over. Do you understand?
- Protein shake.
- Go upstairs in my office. See what magnificent thing Claude has produced: mistakes. Always mistakes. Yell at Claude in ways I've never yelled at a human. Do I apologize, or do I say, "You know what, robots will never take over, or maybe they won't remember this, or if they do I'll be living in a van down by the river?"
- Chicken salad. Again.
- Zoom call. Zoom. Zoom.
- Zoom call.
- Claude Sessions.
- Zoom call.
- Claude Sessions.
- Zoom call, zoom.
- Claude, Claude, Claude, Claude, Claude, Claude, Claude.
- Look at LinkedIn, think of something LinkedIn-y to post. Get 12 likes.
- Claude, Zoom, email, email, Slack, Slack, Slack, Claude, Claude, Claude, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom.
- Go outside, shoot a few hoops with my boys, realize knees aren't what they used to be. Still own these kids.
- Walk past dogs. They're upset. I did not pet them. They will have to remain upset.
- Claude, Zoom. Claude. Claude. Claude. Claude. Claude. Claude. Claude. LinkedIn. X.
- Splash water on face, scrub with towel that's been on counter for at least eight months.
- Put the kids to bed.
- Read the same chapter I've been trying to read over and over and over again.
- Talk with wife. Laugh.
- Read the same chapter, same sentence again.
- Wake up, it's 10:26. My wife has either been finishing book after book or working on her computer. I've been falling asleep, drooling on myself.
- Hit the bed at 11:00 to only do it all again.
- 11:06 p.m. Open X. Scroll, scroll, scroll, like, bookmark, like, bookmark, like, screen share, screen grab, share with friends who aren't on X.
- 11:32 p.m. Bathroom.
Wouldn't change a thing.
My current lifemaxxing stack:
- 4:30am wake up
- Read classic books
- 3 hours creative work before 8am
- Lift/run 6x/week
- Eat single ingredient foods
- Present time with fam/friends
- 20-min evening sauna
- Wild Roman skincare routine
- 8:30pm bedtime
Wouldn't change a thing.