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I’m more effective and more detail-oriented in dark, cold winter months. If there is bright sunlight outside I get distracted because I want to go for a bike ri
by DanielleMolloy 7y ago
I’m more effective and more detail-oriented in dark, cold winter months. If there is bright sunlight outside I get distracted because I want to go for a bike ride, and above 25C I’m just less effective.
Daylight lamps sometimes triggered headaches for me.
Probably I should move north.
- unglaublich 7y agoJust take a few hours off during lunch. Go for that bike-ride. Tire your body, free your brain. That (with few exceptions) is what keeps me going and happy for years now. Job's that don't allow me this little bit of flexibility, are just not my kind jobs. What's a big happy purse with a sad person to wear it?
- rhn_mk1 7y agoSummer cycles can easily stretch into a few hours. That's a significant amount of time out of the workday already, and they leave the mind thinking about personal stuff as often as about work. Much as this is a nice freedom, it doesn't come for free, even in taking into account the difficult problems worked out while working out.
- jschwartzi 7y agoIf the personal stuff is hampering work stuff, then perhaps it should be a priority for a while, no?
- rhn_mk1 7y agoYou're surely on to something, but then scope creep (of personal stuff) would put some people out of work :) Otherwise, crap jobs exist for a reason, and not everyone can afford what's optimal for them.
- hinkley 7y agoWhen I was more obsessive about team productivity, I saw a biennial pattern on several teams. Late summer was awful for some but not all of us, but most had trouble with the period starting a couple weeks around thanksgiving to the beginning of January (coworkers disappearing at random intervals hampers collaboration). Basic research seemed to do better during this time.