New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- The Instagram algorithm had decided that I was looking for a lifestyle of optimisation. Reels on the advantages of starting your workday at 3am or 1pm, depending on the content creators' views, were clamouring for my attention.

Some ads suggested tools to maximise sleeping hours so I could fight procrastination and "Get Sh*t Done" before deadline. In between were memes of how 1 January 2025 felt like it was just this Monday, and why only January and Monday come so early. Of all the content thrown at me this past week, a productivity guru's reel to help with "rawdogging" caught my attention. Earlier slang for unprotected sexual intercourse, "rawdogging" is now Internet-speak for doing nothing for a few hours to hone ...