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Work-Life Balance, and the Exponential Cost of Generalisation

Choosing to participate in physical conditioning and developing social relations has fairly modular trade-offs. I figure that I have about four (4) productive work sprints in a single day. Each takes say 2-3 hours of time.

Working out, feeding, washing, laundry, and reloading information after working out, basically consumes one sprint.

Recalibrating my memory to interact with loved ones basically consumes another sprint.

Given that within each day, later sprints are usually superior in productivity to prior sprints due to memory locality, there is an exponential cost to physical and social conditioning.

Yet we all do it anyway. Sometimes. Sometimes we do not. 

That is the economics of it.

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