I had a burnout

Journal entries from the time I took a break from work

Fire and Ice / Handpicked from my travel albums

Before the pandemic

  • Wake up, cold shower and leave early to beat the traffic
  • Breakfast at work (I loved that my workplace was kind enough to offer us breakfast at the pantry)
  • Begin actual work by 10:30–11 AM
  • Not do much and head out to lunch by 1 PM
  • Chat for a bit, and run back to my desk cause I’m not exactly the chatterbox kind
  • Pray to god no meetings come in and finally get into the zone and start some real, Deep Work done.
Chill out work scenes / One of my desks at WeWork / Late Night scenes (with pizza of course)
  • Once in the Flow, nothing else matters — I’d sit and work without a break (At times stretching all the way up to 9PM even 3/4AM)
  • Return home and crash to sleep.
  • Repeat

Pandemic en-route

Photo by Nelly Antoniadou on Unsplash

Little did I know, this was just the start of the storm…

Remote work begins!

NOTIFICATIONS OVERDOSE!

Unlock X.0 / Travelling during the Pandemic

Sweaty Outlook / My chariot / Foggy Visor about 70% of the travel duration

Fastforward through the quarantine

Preparing for the long break

Duration

Getting an alternative distraction

NO CALLS/NOTIFICATIONS

ZERO COMMITS!

Rejuvenation Break Journal Entries

Day 0 – Saturday | 31st October, 2020

BUT LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL CREATURE!!!
What I intially came to help with 😅

Day 1 – Sunday | 1 November, 2020

Checking how PDFs with illustrations looked like on the Oasis

Day 2— Monday | 2 November, 2020

  • How to influence people friend and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
  • Warren Buffet — 9 Daily Habits of Warren buffet (Isaac Fox)
  • THINK STRAIGHT: Change your thoughts, Change your life (Darius Foroux)
  • The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

Day 3— Tuesday | 3 November, 2020

Monkey 1 sketching — Monkey 2 (me)

Day 4,5 — No Log Entries

Day 6 — Friday | 6 November, 2020

Day 7 —Saturday | 7 November, 2020

The Puppers , A Dashund(black) and a Dash-Pomeranian cross (brown) / One of the “explorer” monkeys saying “THis is a nice, TEleescopeE😐”

Day 8 — Sunday | 8 November, 2020

The End

Discussions

Reflecting back upon the break, what are the things you think helped the most?

Will you do it more often?

Why just a week, why not longer?

This break is dated back in November 2020, why are you publishing this right now?

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I talk about real world experiences in Tech and Scaling Deep Learning based workloads | Reach out via @arjun921 / connect@arjunsunil.com

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Arjun Sunil

I talk about real world experiences in Tech and Scaling Deep Learning based workloads | Reach out via @arjun921 / connect@arjunsunil.com