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One aspect of discipline that I think is underrated, is to take notes as you work. What you were thinking, what you tried, what worked and what didn't. It helps
by demygale 9y ago
One aspect of discipline that I think is underrated, is to take notes as you work. What you were thinking, what you tried, what worked and what didn't. It helps with reflection even if you never go back and read the notes.
- luckydude 9y agoThis is a good one, I forgot that one. How I do it is I type up the notes at the end of my day, I always put them in a file called "STATE" in whatever directory I'm working in. I document what I was trying to do, how far I had gotten, what I think I need to do next. I can't tell you the number of times that as I'm writing up the notes I go "ahhhhh, that's it!" and off I go for another few hours and actually finish. And in the times where I leave it, it's so much faster to get up to speed the next day after reading the STATE file. And my coworkers at the time knew that I did this and would do stuff like $ cd /home/bk/lm $ find . -name STATE -mtime -1 to see what I was working on. Not saying that's a good way to communicate, but it worked for us at the time.