One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 hours a day 5 years ago
Your entire post reads like I could have written it. Made a throwaway just to respond.
As in, I spent the rest of it reading books in a terminal so it looked like I was doing work, or something similarly useless to my employer
What are some of your other favourite things like this? Some:
* Using rtv to browse reddit via CLI
* Browsing RSS feeds and news sites, eg with elinks.
* Learning a totally new programming language / tool / paradigm.
* Roguelikes, eg ATOM, Nethack
* Random IRC chat rooms (meh)
* And as you said, reading books