There's always limit on how much one can focus. Here's what I do to compensate: 1. Write everything down, in some sort of structured form. 2. Take breaks. 3.

There's always limit on how much one can focus. Here's what I do to compensate: 1. Write everything down, in some sort of structured form. 2. Take breaks. 3. Return to writeup, think about it some more. This scales from smaller two day things to multiple month projects; see Rich Hickey's talk, which focuses more on the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc