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Trying to do what I really like, sleeping more, exercise. Procrastination is often a symptom not a disease: you are doing something you don't care enough, you a
by antirez 17y ago
Trying to do what I really like, sleeping more, exercise. Procrastination is often a symptom not a disease: you are doing something you don't care enough, you are tired, or don't exercise enough. Also a fix can be stay away a few days form the PC having fun with friends or girlfriend and so forth.
Also remember, to be productive 8x5 in our industry is a myth: not possible at all. If you are able to code even 30% of the time in a focused way it's already great.
- keefe 17y agoDon't convince yourself it's not possible. I've done it and it was the norm at my last startup. For me, I can't do more than 60-70 hours a week, but certainly 30% is a low level of productivity.
- sausagefeet 17y agoI think it depends on how you define productivity. I have had jobs where people (even the programmers) felt that if you weren't typing code you weren't working. In my latest job I luckily don't have managers harassing me at all and find I spend a lot of time just thinking about how the system we are building should work and not much time coding, but I push solutions out just as fast, with less fixing down the road.
- abraham 17y agoIf a groups definition of working is just writing code it seems likely they will hit a wall where they are no longer improving. They might know their languages APIs better but they lose out on much of the larger communities gained knowledge.
- antirez 17y agoExactly, most of the time should be spent thinking about how to make the system simpler, writing less code.
- keefe 17y agoI'd define it as milestones per day. It's important to set small bite sized goals imho. Any programmer who has a boss thinking that !writing code -> !working needs to find a different job asap.
- bendtheblock 17y agoGreat advice. One of the secrets is to do something you believe in, which is why having a startup is so good. The other is to have a close deadline, that work's for me anyway. A peppering of exercise and plenty of sleep also help. I don't believe in all this 'sleep hack' stuff - just get 6 to 8 hours on a regular basis, but that's a whole separate discussion.