What If Instead of Trying to Manage Your Time, You Set It Free?
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#3I can't help but think that the author of the book as an artist, who I assume is not in a 9-5 job and whose work necessarily requires unusual uses of their time, can't possibly relate to normal folks here.
Every day I need to: 1. work out. 2. work at least 9-5. 3. cook dinner. 4. spend time with my wife.
Then, things come up. Shopping, chores, etc.
Already I don't have time to waste, and I don't even have kids or a second job. So yeah, I block out my day: Wake up at 6, breakfast and out the door by 6:45, commute and work out and shower and get to my desk by 8:30, etc etc. If I didn't purposely block out time like this I'd wake up at 10am, have to work late, cook late, spend less time with family, not keep up with my health, etc, etc.
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#4>historical relationship between workers and bosses and who is in charge of whose time.
I have 4 bosses, they all fully own my time and schedule. It is all about managing expectations, there is no such thing as 10x or even 4x developer :)
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#5>historical relationship between workers and bosses and who is in charge of whose time. I have 4 bosses, they all fully own my time and schedule. It is all about managing expectations, there is no such thing as 10x or even 4x developer :)
I think most developers are lucky to make it to 1/2X most days.
I certainly feel that way, even though I do think I'm pretty good at this job.
I have 10 hours of meetings a week and they feel perfect sprinkled throughout my calendar to ensure I never get enough time to sit and think about my work.
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#6I can't help but think that the author of the book as an artist, who I assume is not in a 9-5 job and whose work necessarily requires unusual uses of their time, can't possibly relate to normal folks here. Every day I need to: 1. work out. 2. work at least 9-5. 3. cook dinner. 4. spend time with my wife. Then, things come up. Shopping, chores, etc. Already I don't have time to waste, and I don't even have kids or a s…
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#7"...realizing that I am also changing and evolving. To me those are the reminders that, yeah, I’m alive, today is not the same as yesterday, I will be different in the future, therefore I have a reason to live, which is to find out what that change is going to be. "
Could not agree more. Time is change.
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#8>historical relationship between workers and bosses and who is in charge of whose time. I have 4 bosses, they all fully own my time and schedule. It is all about managing expectations, there is no such thing as 10x or even 4x developer :)
> I have 4 bosses
No.
At this point consider contracting.
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#9"...realizing that I am also changing and evolving. To me those are the reminders that, yeah, I’m alive, today is not the same as yesterday, I will be different in the future, therefore I have a reason to live, which is to find out what that change is going to be. " Could not agree more. Time is change.
yeah, and change is time. there is no notion of change without time, and Id argue that there's no way to measuring time without change, so change is indeed just a different manifestatin of time
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#10I can't help but think that the author of the book as an artist, who I assume is not in a 9-5 job and whose work necessarily requires unusual uses of their time, can't possibly relate to normal folks here. Every day I need to: 1. work out. 2. work at least 9-5. 3. cook dinner. 4. spend time with my wife. Then, things come up. Shopping, chores, etc. Already I don't have time to waste, and I don't even have kids or a s…
This is why working remote /from home was probably the best thing to happen to me. So liberating to gain those hour's back stolen by commuting and organizing a life around being somewhere else all day