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It happens to be the case that I do (I am at LinkedIn) but I actually started this years ago when I was working as an independent contractor/consultant. It was
by chriskrycho 4y ago
It happens to be the case that I do (I am at LinkedIn) but I actually started this years ago when I was working as an independent contractor/consultant. It was the only way I could keep track of having many, many different things in flight: I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. It actually started out as just a way to help build the necessary personal disciplines to get things done, and the logging grew out of it when I realized it was really helpful for two things: my own understanding of what I had done over a given period of time, and then eventually for using at the startup I joined in 2016, and now at BigTech.
- jatins 4y ago> I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. That's impressive. Probably deserves a blog post of itself on how you managed to squeeze in extra 4 hours in a day.
- chriskrycho 4y agoI've thought about writing it up but never came up with a way of doing it that doesn't just sound self-congratulatory. Honestly, two really big things for me were: - At that age, I really only needed ~7 hours of sleep a night. - I had no commute. Net, that's basically an extra 2 hours a day every day over what most folks I know had/have, and that's a lot. It's an extra month of time in a year!