Ask HN: How do you make yourself productive after a tiring day at work?

Post by oftenwrong » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #18

oftenwrong wrote: post #14

Work less, and use the time you save for your own purposes. Nobody will care if you are leaving a bit early. Your productivity probably will not even decrease. Most programmers work more hours than they can actually sustain productively. Most people work until they are tired, and then go home, arriving even more tired. To arrive home with some energy, leave work well before you are tired. Don't forget to use some of…

Just leave early? Simple as that?

Post by althaffe » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 3:07 PM UTC

muzani wrote: post #15

My trick is to not use any willpower. Your side project should excite you, not tire you. My goal is to push one update a day live, whether it's small or big. That means when I have more time, I work on fixing up the infrastructure so that I can push updates without code, such as setting up a dashboard. If the updates are too big to fit in one update, I still push it to server as a matter of principle, but it might be…