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I am a runner. I run 60 minutes to 120 minutes / day. I understand this. But at some point, you do have to click buttons in some divine ordered pattern, right? Or are you saying you don't even do this?
Dictation is a nice alternative.
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Related to this, it's amazing when your away from the computer and not really engaged in anything you can think back to a piece of code that was giving you trouble and come up with a fix you couldn't think of while working at a screen.
Or more surprising, twigging a bug in some code you previously considered fine :)
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Very smart strategy, considering this: Just today I've heard a theory, that when you walk around brain is more able to try new ways of thinking and solving problems, because the 'motion center' in the brain is doing what it's supposed to do: handling one's movements. On the contrary when we are not moving, this center can often overwhelm the thought process with already established habits, which makes trying new thin…
Aristotle's Peripatetic school was all about walking while thinking and teaching and learning.
The Rose main reading room of the NYPL Schwarzman building (that's the one with the lions) is quiet, has wifi and outlets, and is inspirational. http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/general-research-di...
Before I joined the library, I'd come here all the time just to get work done. Now I come here to work.
Anyway, if you go a few blocks south to the Science, Industry, and Business Library (34th & Madison Ave) there's access to tons of market research databases that have helped fill out many of my friends pitch decks.
I have a complete, insulated, properly built outdoor office at the end of my garden. It was built because I had to give up my indoor office due to my daughter being born. End result? I now work in a tiny corner of the living room because I like being in the house and not walking up and down the garden in the cold. Oops.
Also when it's really cold it makes me want to run when I need to go back to the house; the dash is a nice brisk way to get the blood pumping a bit.
I think some of the most amazing 10-20 liners of code I've written, I wrote in my dreams. Made a major effort to memorize them, and then implemented once I got to a computer.
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If you get a whiteboard, I would suggest putting it far enough away from your desk that you need to stand up (or roll over to it) in order to use it. I've found that kind of physical separation very helpful in creating a mental separation between "designing mode" and "implementing mode."
Good suggestion. I used to do something similar when I had a rolling white board. I be sure to keep it away from my desk as I was planning/designing and would then wheel it back over to my work area when it was implementation time and/or I needed reminders. Though, I typically solve my most complex problems by leaving the computer and talking a walk around the block. That doesn't work out so well in these cold South…
Cold? South Carolina? Does. Not. Compute :-)
I know it's all relative, but I woke up to -24F last week. Makes it real hard to think of South Carolina (of which my only memory is driving there in mid summer in a non A/C pickup truck) as "cold" ;-)
On a stage, with an orchestra. (I'm a professional singer.)
For people who work in a coffee shop: a) Does the noise bother you? b) Do you ever get sick of being in the same place everyday? c) Does the owner ever get sick of you being there everyday?
Adding on to that, do you stay at the same shop all day or do you spend the first half at one place, eat lunch, then go to another?