Life

Slow mornings

Mar 2, 2026·3 min read

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I used to open my laptop the second I woke up. Now I don’t, and the first hour of the day feels like mine again instead of everyone else’s.

Nothing urgent was ever actually urgent.

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Comments (4)

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Priya S.2 days ago
This matches how I think about our queue setup at work — appreciated the analogy.
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Marcus O.2 days ago
More of these, please. The "boring by design" framing is underrated.
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  Gautam RajAuthor1 day ago
  Thanks! I'll probably write a follow-up on how this plays out with async workers specifically.
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Dev K.1 day ago
Curious how this applies to serverless, where you don't control the process lifecycle as directly.