Great post! It sounds like you're a very ambitious person with a lot on your plate. It occurred to me recently that I'm a fairly lazy individual. It's not that I don't work or have ambitions, but I often waste time that could be put to better use. You're still teaching I presume?
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Except for a six-week gig at a summer enrichment camp/school, no. I am building online courses, but haven't found a way to market them successfully yet. Hopefully I will launch something here on Steemit soon and allow people to pay with crypto-currency. The lack of a robust internal economy is, I think, a problem for the platform.
I find that my own definitions of what is "useful" don't necessarily line up with being a healthy person. For many years I felt guilty about taking time out for gaming, or reading, and that more or less backfired by making me burn out on the work I was doing. I've essentially changed careers and started over every ten years.
I may be doing the opposite . . . I take too much time out for reading, studying whatever interests me, etc, etc. (Far too much like the narrator of this story..)
This, too, can backfire, and not for the reason you might think.
I tried to teach LaTeX and TikZ to graduate students. And it turns out that what I consider easy is only easy because I had learned it myself (a) for fun without any pressure, (b) with plenty of time for practice. It's not very great fun, and not easy, if you don't have much free time. (Donald Broadbent, 1971, Decision and stress, investigated this quite nicely. Pretty much anything and productivity falls off rapidly.)
Then again, I believe money per se doesn't buy happiness. It's time which is what it sometimes purchases. Time offers you the possibility of you focusing on the things you value, in order to become excellent at each of those different things. Excellence at those things you value gives you happiness.
Agreed.