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Bartleby: New year, new you
巴托比：新的一年，新的你
How to have the most productive working day of your life
如何擁有一生中最有效率的工作日
It’s the first full working week of 2023.
2023年第一個完整的工作周到來了。
You have two new year’s resolutions.
立下兩個新年決議吧。
First, to turn yourself into a humming machine of productivity.
一是把自己變成一臺嗡嗡作響的生產力機器。
No more procrastinating, no more afternoon naps.
不再拖延，不再午睡。
Second, to maximise your own sense of well-being.
二是最大限度地提升自己的幸福感。
A few days in, and your daily journal bears witness to a changed person, a model of self-caring efficiency.
幾天后，每日日記就會見證你的改變，你會變成一個自理效率的典范。
07:00 Go to the gym. Leave phone at home. Mens sana in corpore sano.
07：00去健身房。把手機留在家里。高尚的靈魂寓于強健的身體。
08:00 Tell au pair to wake children, and to keep them out of your way.
08：00讓互惠生叫醒孩子，叫他們別礙事。
08:15 Listen briefly to the call of a whale on Spotify. Shower. Dress.
08：15在Spotify上聽一會兒鯨魚的叫聲。洗個澡。穿衣服。
08:30 Eat something with chia seeds.
08：30吃點帶奇亞籽的東西。
08:40 Remove chia seeds from teeth.
08：40把塞在牙齒間的奇亞籽弄掉。
08:58 Enter home office. Great sense of wellness. Never felt weller.
08：58進入總部辦公室。有種非常健康的感覺。從來沒有感覺這么好過。
09:00 Turn phone off aeroplane mode and fire up laptop.
09：00關閉手機飛行模式，啟動筆記本電腦。
Phone goes mad: missed calls, Slack messages, texts.
手機開始狂叫：全是未接來電、Slack消息以及短信。
Precisely where the day went wrong in the bad old days of 2022.
告訴你在2022年那段糟糕的日子里，到底出了什么問題。
Use new batching technique: respond to the oldest five emails and ignore everything else.
這時候就用新的批量處理技巧吧：回復最早的五封電子郵件，忽略其他所有內容。
Turn notifications off again.
然后再次關閉消息提醒。
09:30 Make a list of tasks that need to be completed today.
09：30列出今天需要完成的任務。
Colour-code those tasks according to priority.
根據優先等級給這些任務標顏色。
Chunk each of the high-priority tasks into discrete segments.
將每個高優先級的任務分成不同的部分。
Use combination of time-boxing and Pomodoro techniques to put them into the calendar for the day ahead.
結合使用時間盒和“番茄工作法”，給這些任務分配今日時間。
10:30 Calendar for the day is now complete. Very full few hours ahead.
10：30分配完成。前幾個小時已經非常滿了。
Get up and go for a walk around the block to avoid musculoskeletal problems.
站起來，繞著工作區走一圈，避免肌肉骨骼出問題。
Every so often stop and look 20 yards into the distance to maintain eye health.
時不時就停下來看20碼遠的地方，保持眼睛健康。
See friend on street.
去街上見朋友。
11:30 Back at desk.
11：30回到辦公桌前。
Decide to find a “Study with Me” video, a recording of someone else working at their desk, as extra motivation for the day to come.
決定找一段“一起學”視頻，看一段別人在辦公桌前工作的錄像，作為新的一天的額外動力。
Very effective technique, just need to choose the right recording.
這個技巧非常有效，只需要選擇合適的錄像。
Might have one with rain pattering on the windows.
可以選有雨點打在窗戶上的。
Or a cat sleeping.
或者有一只貓在睡覺的。
Or logs on a fire.
或者是在火上燒木頭的。
12:00 “Study with Me” recording is now playing.
12：00“一起學”視頻正播著。
Went with the cats.
被貓帶睡著了。
Day is slightly off-track now.
白天的時間安排現在有點偏離軌道。
Begin first 25-minute Pomodoro session.
開始“番茄工作法”的第一個25分鐘。
12:25 Excellent session. Get up. Stretch.
12：25這段時間非常好。站起來。伸展伸展。
12:30 Second Pomodoro session begins.
12：30“番茄工作法”的第二個25分鐘開始。
Lasers are less focused than me.
激光都沒我能聚焦。
12:40 Extremely bored.
12：40非常無聊。
Try to get onto Wordle but have installed blocker on laptop that means I cannot use the site until 18:00.
想玩玩Wordle，但筆記本電腦上安裝了攔截器，這意味著我在18：00之前都進不去這個網站。
Only way around this is to change the time on the computer.
解決這個問題的唯一辦法就是改變電腦的時間。
Not sure how to do this but it cannot be that hard.
我不太知道該怎么改，但能有多難呢。
13:30 It is quite hard.
相當難。
But Wordle is done (in four tries!).
但是Wordle已經完成了(試了四次！)。
Clock on computer is now totally wrong; saying it is 2024.
電腦上的時鐘現在完全錯了，顯示是2024年。
Just need to change it back.
只要把它改回來就行了。
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