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Randy Pausch, a former Computer Science Professor at University of Virginia who passed away from Pancreatic Cancer, gave a popular lecture on Time Manage in the
by d_sem 4y ago
Randy Pausch, a former Computer Science Professor at University of Virginia who passed away from Pancreatic Cancer, gave a popular lecture on Time Manage in the last few months of his illness. In his lecture he proposed a monitor set up I still use today. What I love about this method is that one quickly learned which monitors does what and so there are fewer brain cycles to decide where to put your windows.
The Three monitor method:
- One for reading. ( documents, reference material, requirements)
- One for writing. ( code, writing emails, creating anything)
- One for time. (calendar app always open.)
He mentions it roughly 49 min into the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaK_tB_KQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaK_tB_KQA
- raincole 4y agoReading and writing monitors make sense. But I'd definitely not put a monitor just for calender/time. It sounds like a recipe to increase my anxiety leve. I guess because it's a lecture about time management (I haven't listened to it)? But still...
- kkoncevicius 4y agoSo in this setup, when you read your email you would put it on the "read" monitor, but when you compose an email you would transfer it over to the "write" monitor?
- diffeomorphism 4y agoWhy transfer? Writing emails usually opens another window (e.g. outlook, thunderbird etc.), so you have one window for reading and one for writing. Also makes it easier to cross-reference other emails or documents while writing your email.