I hope we can differentiate between mental blocks and illness, but if you are in the former category, try switching to different classes of tasks. If you are i

I hope we can differentiate between mental blocks and illness, but if you are in the former category, try switching to different classes of tasks. If you are in the "illness" category, ignore this comment all-together. I do have days where I cant get code done, but luckily there are other things that work well on those days -- like catching up on research paper queues or audit/accounting/cleaning. Accounting/cleaning has a strangely and remedial quality, there is something soothing about getting things to balance perfectly and into order.