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I have to laugh at this. Not because he's wrong, but because it's so indicative of the programmer's mind. Structured, orderly, formulaic. Laying down rules and
by joel_perl_prog 13y ago
I have to laugh at this. Not because he's wrong, but because it's so indicative of the programmer's mind. Structured, orderly, formulaic. Laying down rules and procedures. Which is fine--nothing wrong with that, however...
Let me offer a counter-example, for what it's worth, which perhaps isn't a whole lot. I've been working at home for almost a year, after being in the office for six. It's very simple. In the morning, I start working, sitting on my couch, using my laptop. Eight hours later, I sign out. Obviously eating some time in the middle there. That's it. Nothing to it, really.
- the_cat_kittles 13y agoHehehe, very true. As a person with very similar habits, I have only one "rule"- when my body starts to feel bad, I go to the gym and play basketball for several hours.
- jgj 13y agoI worked from home for 4 years straight and never gave it more thought than "work when I feel like working or when the situation requires it." Look at that, my method fits in a tweet!
- MartinCron 13y agoI'm glad that you found a tweet-sized strategy that works for you. I can say from experience that it doesn't work for everyone.
- LekkoscPiwa 13y agoas if working from Starbucks did.
- fernandotakai 13y agoWorking from home for the past 3y here. I need some structure on my day otherwise I procrastinate too much. That means, waking up early, working from x till y, stopping in the middle for a quick lunch – so basically, just like working on an office. Different people, different tastes.
- ChiperSoft 13y agoDo you live alone? That would never work in my household, between my wife and daughter, the livingroom is the last place I could ever get any work done. I've tried, it's impossible to focus with all the distractions.
- joel_perl_prog 13y agoI do.
- blumentopf 13y agoTrue. And I would actually go so far as to reject some of the advice, e.g. the strict separation between home and work and the timeboxing: I often take a pause during the day to do some stupid housework. This lets me toss around a problem in my head that I'm working on and when I later return to my programming I have a fresh pair of eyeballs and have formed new ideas to solve the problem. That kind of relaxed way of working on a problem would be impossible with timeboxing.
- joel_perl_prog 13y agoI see... I'm an old man, so I don't have any homework. =)