Offline Time

written by Eric J. Ma on 2018-01-10 | tags: work digital decluttering productivity

I came to realize how important digital offline time is.

I was locked out of my work computer due to password reasons. (It's not human error - something about corporate management tools locked me out. Okay, well, that's human error too.) That said, I inadvertently gained a full two hours of offline time on Monday.

Those two hours turned out to be pretty productive. I spent some time sketching out my work projects, trying to make better sense of how the project could fit in a disease area researcher's workflow, and figuring out derivative analyses that could enhance the value to them. This was something I probably wouldn't be able to accomplish if I had the regular distractions of my computer nearby.

Seems like Cal Newport's "digital distraction de-cluttering" is a good thing to do. I must do more of it.

Cite this blog post:

@article{
    ericmjl-2018-offline-time,
    author = {Eric J. Ma},
    title = {Offline Time},
    year = {2018},
    month = {01},
    day = {10},
    howpublished = {\url{https://ericmjl.github.io}},
    journal = {Eric J. Ma's Blog},
    url = {https://ericmjl.github.io/blog/2018/1/10/offline-time},
}

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