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Not a bad piece, but for me it turns out almost all of my so-called procrastination and laziness is rooted in a congenital medical condition. When I can manage to take good care of myself, energy and mental focus lead to productivity. When I can't, then I look like some kind of loser to the outside world. I suspect that under recognized health issues are a common factor in such patterns. I knew a guy who swore he was…
Not a bad piece, but for me it turns out almost all of my so-called procrastination and laziness is rooted in a congenital medical condition. When I can manage to take good care of myself, energy and mental focus lead to productivity. When I can't, then I look like some kind of loser to the outside world. I suspect that under recognized health issues are a common factor in such patterns. I knew a guy who swore he was…
Is there a reason why uppers in the morning and downers at night helps manage severe allergies?
What also helped is realizing there isn't a silver bullet or magic pill that will get me to do the work: the work has to be done, and I have to do it at some point.
I started a few spreadsheets for things I'd like to log: amount of piano practice per day (aim for 30m), amount of script pages written now that I've transitioned away from programming, the amount of laps I swam that day, etc.
It feels appropriately "bad" to keep filling in the cells with "0". And looking at the "streaks" I have keeps me going.
Here are example pics of some of my spreadsheets, maybe this could be useful to some:
Piano Log: https://i.imgur.com/H0TbSSC.png
Writing Log: https://i.imgur.com/6Qb7Dka.png (not doing as well there, clearly...)
Conditional formatting reminds me of various thresholds per day and per week. Red = below minimum, yellow = at or slightly above the minimum, green = above the minimum
1. https://lifehacker.com/how-seinfelds-productivity-secret-fix...
Still, I have also found the quality of leadership really determines my productivity. When working independently, and there are 100 different objectives I could work on, it's very logical for my brain to say none of them are important. I have come to appreciate how helpful it is to have a decent boss who can laser focus on objectives in a way that help me line up my work.
Since we're all sharing, the concept of tracking progress by the day as popularized (but not created) by Jerry Seinfeld[1] has helped me quite a bit. What also helped is realizing there isn't a silver bullet or magic pill that will get me to do the work: the work has to be done, and I have to do it at some point. I started a few spreadsheets for things I'd like to log: amount of piano practice per day (aim for 30m),…
Since we're all sharing, the concept of tracking progress by the day as popularized (but not created) by Jerry Seinfeld[1] has helped me quite a bit. What also helped is realizing there isn't a silver bullet or magic pill that will get me to do the work: the work has to be done, and I have to do it at some point. I started a few spreadsheets for things I'd like to log: amount of piano practice per day (aim for 30m),…
Looking back, it's very easy for me to blame the US education system, which seems to make it very easy for slightly intelligent people to avoid a lot of work. I feel like I learned really bad work habits early on and am cursed with a flawed brain now. I almost envy countries that focus on almost militaristic rote practice. For some of my foreign educated colleagues, there is little in the way between wanting to accom…
It has its downsides. I had mostly bad experience working with software developers from rote learning cultures, because you may guess it, they tend to execute but not think about it. IMO the main worth of a software developer is unpacking customer requirements and getting them to make logical sense so that a computer can understand them.
If you don't question anything coming from authority, i.e. the customer, due to your upbringing, you're already off to a bad start.
Because executing without thinking is not what you hire the humans to do, it's what the computer does.
Looking back, it's very easy for me to blame the US education system, which seems to make it very easy for slightly intelligent people to avoid a lot of work. I feel like I learned really bad work habits early on and am cursed with a flawed brain now. I almost envy countries that focus on almost militaristic rote practice. For some of my foreign educated colleagues, there is little in the way between wanting to accom…
>I almost envy countries that focus on almost militaristic rote practice. For some of my foreign educated colleagues, there is little in the way between wanting to accomplish something and accomplishing it. It has its downsides. I had mostly bad experience working with software developers from rote learning cultures, because you may guess it, they tend to execute but not think about it. IMO the main worth of a softwa…
Looking back, it's very easy for me to blame the US education system, which seems to make it very easy for slightly intelligent people to avoid a lot of work. I feel like I learned really bad work habits early on and am cursed with a flawed brain now. I almost envy countries that focus on almost militaristic rote practice. For some of my foreign educated colleagues, there is little in the way between wanting to accom…
>I almost envy countries that focus on almost militaristic rote practice. For some of my foreign educated colleagues, there is little in the way between wanting to accomplish something and accomplishing it. It has its downsides. I had mostly bad experience working with software developers from rote learning cultures, because you may guess it, they tend to execute but not think about it. IMO the main worth of a softwa…
