m1dnigh7

Ah, fair enough. The only real routine I have is "make coffee, kiss wife, watch rerun of the evening news". And that's about it.

So yes, I have no productivity-helping routines.

Some of the ones I tried in a lot of different ways are time management (pomodoro, toggl, ..), activity logging (toggl, todoist, paper book, ..), waking up and going to bed on fixed hours, remembering thinks (google keep, evernote, paper book,..) and all of them fade away after less than 5 days.

I truly envy people with routines or rituals. I have tried the simplest ones, and none of them stick. I've been frustrated by this for a long time now. I see people having routines and being more productive and it makes me almost sad.

I think you need to be a special kind of person to have them.

Why can't they just put cameras in the track and determine position like that?

This is also a fun project to build a virtual machine for. I've been working on one, but haven't finished it yet. Not too complex, but very educational.

But there is the whole glass castle principle you forgot to me too. That 5 minute break does not take 0 minutes to recover from in some cases. You need to rebuild your glass castle in your head over and over again. So in reality it might take just as much time to go back to full productivity.

Is this a VM in the sense the JVM is a VM, or is it a VM in the sense of a CPU emulator?

It seems to be the former, but I'm not well read in VM implementation.