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I alternate my work days: On even days I ask "What can I do today that advances my work as much as possible?" and work long hours with little breaks and no fri
by drcode 13y ago
I alternate my work days:
On even days I ask "What can I do today that advances my work as much as possible?" and work long hours with little breaks and no frivolous web browsing, etc.
On odd days I ask "What seems like the most interesting and anxiety reducing things I can do?" and allow any music and frivolous web browsing I want.
Some of the benefits I find with this approach are (1) it weens you off of habitual web browsing, so even when you allow web browsing it's moderate and (2) I find even on my "off" days I end up usually being productive, though at a lower stress level, since luckily much of my work is genuinely interesting.
- bennyg 13y agoThat's a very interesting approach.
- gridmaths 13y agominimizes context shifting.. nice.
- srik 13y agoI was gonna be critical about the fact the break in continuity might affect enthusiasm, but I think it might actually lend more clarity. I might try this for a bit.
- anarchitect 13y agoWe do a similar thing at my work. Mondays and Tuesday's we're maintaining our existing platform, then the remainder of the week we're excitedly developing a new one. We're a small team, and it's worked really well for us to keep focus.
- someperson 13y agoHow long have you been doing this for?
- drcode 13y agoNot long, admittedly... about 3 weeks.