Now spare time is scarce, but in retirement, spare time would be too much.

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XR described to me that (lack of) spare time means so much to him — coaching his son on Chinese; coding drill; personal investment; … However, if he is given 50 hours of spare time, can he be productive in those 50 hours or just 5 hours?

update as of Oct 2020: My Spare time was more scarce esp. during UChicago days. Now I have a rare lifestyle with more spare time, so now I believe most people including XR would not be productive if given this much spare time.

Original title: What can more spare time including leaves “buy”me? Answer:

• lower-body flexibility; cardio fitness
• more therapeutic, reflective blogging
• more (productive or fun) time with kids
• more QQ and coding drill?
• slightly more exploration of local codebase on my own, without time pressure.
• more wellness research, for self-care and teaching my kids. Parents spend a lot of time talking to kids about wellness.
• more calls to Beijing
• Spare time did buy me lots of blogg→evaluation@life→more satisfactions

However, limiting factor is not only spare time (like O2) but absorbency:

• insufficient absorbency for localSys
• insufficient absorbency for jogging, stretch
• insufficient absorbency for coding drill

Jolt: Before I scold ah-boy about his absorbency deficiency, look in the mirror.