One the most important self care things you can do right now is to take some time for yourself. That is true if you have kids or not.

For many of us, HN is one of those things. It is orthogonal to having enough time - it is more about coping.

I agree until I disagree because it becomes a refresh trigger... but you sound like you have discipline.

Yeah, I am pretty capable of procrastination. HN is a tempting alternative to drawing up another Miro diagram, or studying for my algorithms class (something else I can blame on HN, I might never have heard of OMSCS if not for someone mentioning it here ;-)). There was a time when I knew dynamic programming well enough to pass an algorithms class, but that time was in the 90s. I feel old now.

HN is often about feeding your mind. It's about getting the inputs you need.

That other stuff is about coming up with outputs, often from a dry well. HN feeds the well for a great many people.

(Just a general observation, not really intended to be argumentative per se.)

You make a good point. I'll keep it in mind when I'm feeding my mind from the well of HN :)