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The mindset involved in complex programming feels quite similar to writing long-form fiction to me. It seems common for people writing novels to consider 4 hou
by zelos 9y ago
The mindset involved in complex programming feels quite similar to writing long-form fiction to me.
It seems common for people writing novels to consider 4 hours of actual writing a day to be a maximum, beyond which their productivity plummets. Sure, they may be thinking about the novel outside that, but they're not actually sat at a keyboard typing.
- sn41 9y agoSeems to correspond to what is said in "A Mathematician's Apology" by G. H. Hardy: "Then, from about nine to one, unless he was giving a lecture, he worked at his own mathematics. Four hours creative work a day is about the limit for a mathematician, he used to say."