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I've the "talent" to not care about environment/sound and noise, because I thought myself to focus & learn while my classroom went mad. When I start coding on s
by X4 13y ago
I've the "talent" to not care about environment/sound and noise, because I thought myself to focus & learn while my classroom went mad. When I start coding on something I forget time, eating, drinking and everything else.
This is a real horror-story that happened not long ago:
A handful fire-wagons and police cars were outside. My mum called, the door ringed, but I didn't hear anything due to the focus. I just complained silently about the lights that blinded my eye from the window. Suddenly I realized that it's night and that it wasn't the sun, so I asked myself what that was. And realized that the worst thing that can happen got real. I was in burning building, alone, coding. During the high-focus I was in the "FLOW". The building got evacuated, because of the fire. Everyone was outside, sirens, police, firemen, but me. Nothing happened to me luckily and the firemen could kill the fire in time, before it spread. The cellar had to be renovated.
Yes, I was very productive, but you can see the danger of that.
I learned from experience though that I can be similarly productive and stay more conscious when I hear music with low volume that contains no vocals. DnB for example, but I don't hear the music consciously enough to be selective about the genre.
Because I know better now, I do sequenced high intensity programming sessions of not more than 60min and separate research sessions with a time-limit.
- hoodoof 13y agoWow. You must get alot done. What are you building? How old are you?
- X4 13y agoThanks for the kind works, but it can be a plague, when you cannot stop doing what you do easily.. The environment you work on OS/Laptop Speed/Workflow is really crucial to be effective. Currently development stalled, because my laptop broke a little and isn't pushing anymore. Gotta get a new one. I build meta software, concepts, software architecture, servers and experimental UIs. I'll try to work on ai projects to unite some projects without building glue-code after my current project. Step by step.