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# The quiet hours
- URL: https://matteson.ca/notes/the-quiet-hours/
- Published: 2026-04-07T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-10T03:34:16.000Z
- Description: Guarding two hours a day from screens, servers, and the feeling that everything needs tending.
- Author: Matteson Machielse
- Tags: health, #Import 2026-07-11 07:11, #Import 2026-07-15 05:50

The homelab taught me something backwards about rest: systems that are always being tended are usually being tended badly. The ones that hum along are the ones I designed to leave alone.

Applying the same policy to myself: two hours a day with no screens and nothing to administer. The rack survives it. So do I, it turns out.