12 hours in front of the screen: I've been there, and I still am I think.
Next to office life, over time the additional hours spent change, sometimes looping. From spending tons of time on HIVE, to trying to make more money from my wages through trading, to learning new things (like AI: nope still no time to really code something, I need 48hrs days for that hahaha).

My advice on going out is: Walk a large round while being in some office meeting, online ofcourse, ears in, video off. That is what I do often. Coding: uhm not sure wether this can be done while being out and about. Hearing more and more devs coding (using AI) only through phone. Seeing services in the making that uses a voice frontend for AI work (speak/listen), perhaps that could be something? Perhaps with some kind of AR glasses to be able to have a visual view when needed?

Pay-for-Watching: Didn't see this around as well. Pretty cool idea. I do wonder how the system prevents abuse though. Lots and lots of experiments done with pay-for-listening (music, podcasts and whatnot) and most if not all failed. Why? Users artificially watching 24 hours a day, with a growing amount of accounts. And the payout is usually so little, it only makes sense as a bonus. With that I mean, the service itself needs to be compelling enough for the user to stick around (content, UX and all that). The rewards isn't sticky enough. However, when the rewards are large enough, maybe this helps something, therefor I do hope the Ads income will be substantial.

Sorry to be the devil's advocate.