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Let me try as I think I am almost your opposite. Hour 0-0.5: get back to whatever I left the previous day... most productive 0.5 hour of the day with a fresh m

by brabel 5y ago

Let me try as I think I am almost your opposite. Hour 0-0.5: get back to whatever I left the previous day... most productive 0.5 hour of the day with a fresh mind. Hour 0.5-1.5: meetings, status updates, syncing with others... Hour 1.5-3.0: more intense coding. May be bug hunting, new feature, more testing... Hour 3.0-4.0: lunch. Hour 4.0-5.0: typically helping other team members or discussing bugs/new features etc. Or doing "research", keeping up-to-date reading whatever (software related), including HN. Hour 5.0-5.5: coffee break, thinking about personal stuff usually, have a little snack or something. Hour 5.5-7.0: more coding. Much lower productivity though, typically leave things to finish in the 0.5 hour I am most productive the next day. Might read news and non-work related things to give my brain a little break every now and then.

ivraatiems 5y ago
Interesting! Thank you for responding. What's striking to me is that if we break it down, it seems like for you by category it'd be: Hard task/"brain" time: 2-3.5 hours depending on that last section Light task time (including wakeup time): 2-3 hours "Active availability" time: ~1 hour? Personal time: 1.5 hours and for me by category it'd be: Hard task/"brain" time: ~2.5 hours depending on my after-lunch section Light task time (including wakeup time): 3 hours "Active availability" but not working time: 1 hour Personal time: 1 hour So even though it's distributed differently, the amount of time we spend on the types of tasks are pretty similar.