I need to keep repeating this to myself: on days when I don’t seem very productive, like when I’m tired, or don’t get much done, or am distracted, I need to cut myself some slack. I’m always thinking about problems. Sometimes work doesn’t look like work. Sometimes I’m productive when I don’t feel productive. The most important work is in figuring out what to do, less so executing a plan, so if I need to take a nap, if I need to go on a walk, eat a meal, browse reddit, in order to sort things out in my head, in order to clear my head, in order to rest from all of the thinking I’ve been doing, so that I can think clearly and solve problems well, that’s time well spent, and I shouldn’t be hard on myself for not doing “work” work.