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I won't leave code intentionally broken, but I always save some small trivial task for the next morning to immediately get into the swing of things. I really li
by krstck 13y ago
I won't leave code intentionally broken, but I always save some small trivial task for the next morning to immediately get into the swing of things. I really like being able to come in first thing and get something done, even if it's small. If the first thing I have to do requires a lot of deep thinking, I'm likely to procrastinate.
- tetrep 13y ago>If the first thing I have to do requires a lot of deep thinking... That's why I try to think about what I have to think about, the night before. E.G. Try to enumerate all possible solutions/causes to a problem (most likely to least likely) to give yourself something to just dive into the next morning.
- andrewfong 13y agoDoes this affect your sleep? I occasionally think about tomorrow before I go to sleep, and I find that my sleep that night was not as restful as it could have been.
- collyw 13y agoI noticed this recently. I started my job 3 years ago, building a database system from scratch for my organization. Learning Django, and building something new sparked my interest in coding again. 3 years on, it is now mainly maintenance programming, actually fixing stupid excel upload errors (I have argued for hours that we should not be using such an inappropriate method for uploading data, but important people insist). Anyway, the point is, I don't usually bring problems to my sleep with me (I have outside interests). But recently I was asked to add a new feature. It turned out to be a complex problem - along the lines of the P versus NP problem. Now this got me thinking. In my sleep. I did have strange code like dreams (not had that since studying at university). I wouldn't say I sleep badly, more with a sense of excitement (excitement may not be the exact word, but something similar).