A battery-only weekend for work-life balance

Erin of Unclutterer fame tried a novel approach to work-life balance one weekend:

On July 3, I decided that I was going to take a break from my laptop and from work for the three-day holiday weekend. Unfortunately, I had a few small tasks I needed to do over the weekend, so I knew I couldn’t go cold turkey. I decided instead to unplug my computer at the end of the workday on Thursday and not plug my computer back in until showing up for work Monday morning.

I would survive for the holiday only using my laptop’s battery power and nothing else.

My first thought when I read this was that “I couldn’t get much done because my battery is in such poor shape”, and then I realized that was the entire point: it forces you to do the important things and leave the rest.