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Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?

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Exercise at least once every other day. It does wonders for productivity and focus.

I see this so often. Yet....

I do this. In a good shape, healthy, strong.

I'm a moderately good runner on top of it, all the mental and physical benefits of it.

Yet, I can squat out the whole day anxiously looking at the time at 5pm just to realize I haven't delivered anything that day.

Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?

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As I already said here before...

Read through `man bash`. Thank me later :-)

But seriously, just take some time to read through manuals of software you _really_ use a lot. Like git, vim (or any of your fancypants code editor), shell, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?

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doing it consistently over a long period of time. It took me years to realize that all nighters and overwork were a big mistake.

What truly works is to show up everyday consistently for years.

Like Bill said, “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?

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post #11
post #9

Exercise at least once every other day. It does wonders for productivity and focus.

I see this so often. Yet.... I do this. In a good shape, healthy, strong. I'm a moderately good runner on top of it, all the mental and physical benefits of it. Yet, I can squat out the whole day anxiously looking at the time at 5pm just to realize I haven't delivered anything that day.

Would it be worse or better if you stopped exercising?

Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?

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post #15
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this so often. Yet.... I do this. In a good shape, healthy, strong. I'm a moderately good runner on top of it, all the mental and physical benefits of it. Yet, I can squat out the whole day anxiously looking at the time at 5pm just to realize I haven't delivered anything that day.

Would it be worse or better if you stopped exercising?

Wow, that's actually the right question.

Honestly, I don't know. Maybe it would be even worse...

Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?

#20
Kratom, vyvanse and coffee for breakfast! Makes me a relaxed, focused, alert and efficient force to be reckoned with. As it gets closer to lunch time, I’ll take a stack of l-theanine, gaba, black seed oil and ashwaghanda to take the edge off the peak and prepare me for that trip to Pluto I take on my couch after a couple bong rips at the end of the shift.
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