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Calendar Blocking can boost developer productivity in Quarantine

51 points by azzen 6y ago

zitterbewegung 6y ago
To be honest you can remove in Quarantine from the title.
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago
  replace "developer" with "most people"
  - readhn 6y ago
    Replace "calendar blocking" with careful planning: "Careful planning can boost productivity for most people".
    - zitterbewegung 6y ago
      Add life hack back into the title and now it’s perfect clickbait.
zuhayeer 6y ago
I prefer having an unbounded provision of time for anything I'm working on. Ideally I'd minimize the amount of context-switches (ie blocks) in general. I'd rather get to some sort of finish line for what I'm doing rather than leave things half-baked and lose the build up of context / energy
- CGamesPlay 6y ago
  Absolutely! But you’re looking at it from the perspective of “calendar blocking will cause me to end a task early”. The perspective where this is beneficial is “calendar blocking enables me to at least have this much uninterrupted time on a task”.
  - zuhayeer 6y ago
    True
jimbobimbo 6y ago
I have a standing fake meeting "Busy" at around the lunch time every day. It's purpose to show me as busy and deter folks from dropping meetings at inconvenient time. When I'm pressed for time, I'm changing it to whole-day "Out-of-office" fake (I'm in the office, obviously). Very effective tool!
- CrossWired 6y ago
  I'm starting to get more into this practice and finding it very effective. With the kids home due to school cancelations, I've blocked off recurring time throughout the day for dedicated checkins with them, helps with both my and their productivity.
nerdbaggy 6y ago
I’ve tried this and it didn’t work for me. I would always have anxiety about the end time and if I got to where I wanted to be. Without the bounded time I can work till I like where I’m at.
whalesalad 6y ago
This is bottom of the barrel content even for inbound marketing pieces.
- netsharc 6y ago
  "Even Elon Musk does it" Elon Musk who was living in his office? Work-Life-Balance! https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sleeps-under-desk-as-tesla-faces-model-3-production-goals-2018-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sleeps-under-desk-...?

51 points by azzen 6y ago

zitterbewegung 6y ago

To be honest you can remove in Quarantine from the title.

NikolaeVarius 6y ago
replace "developer" with "most people"
- readhn 6y ago
  Replace "calendar blocking" with careful planning: "Careful planning can boost productivity for most people".
  - zitterbewegung 6y ago
    Add life hack back into the title and now it’s perfect clickbait.

zuhayeer 6y ago

I prefer having an unbounded provision of time for anything I'm working on. Ideally I'd minimize the amount of context-switches (ie blocks) in general. I'd rather get to some sort of finish line for what I'm doing rather than leave things half-baked and lose the build up of context / energy

CGamesPlay 6y ago
Absolutely! But you’re looking at it from the perspective of “calendar blocking will cause me to end a task early”. The perspective where this is beneficial is “calendar blocking enables me to at least have this much uninterrupted time on a task”.
- zuhayeer 6y ago
  True

jimbobimbo 6y ago

I have a standing fake meeting "Busy" at around the lunch time every day. It's purpose to show me as busy and deter folks from dropping meetings at inconvenient time. When I'm pressed for time, I'm changing it to whole-day "Out-of-office" fake (I'm in the office, obviously). Very effective tool!

CrossWired 6y ago
I'm starting to get more into this practice and finding it very effective. With the kids home due to school cancelations, I've blocked off recurring time throughout the day for dedicated checkins with them, helps with both my and their productivity.

nerdbaggy 6y ago

I’ve tried this and it didn’t work for me. I would always have anxiety about the end time and if I got to where I wanted to be. Without the bounded time I can work till I like where I’m at.

whalesalad 6y ago

This is bottom of the barrel content even for inbound marketing pieces.

netsharc 6y ago
"Even Elon Musk does it" Elon Musk who was living in his office? Work-Life-Balance! https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sleeps-under-desk-as-tesla-faces-model-3-production-goals-2018-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sleeps-under-desk-...?