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5-6 meals helps burn fat is broscience.
Claiming that something is "broscience" without evidence is even worse than broscience.
Edit: The burden of proof is in the original claim, rather than calling it broscience. They even crossed off the claim in the article.
" Eliminate distractions, and I mean eliminate For a long time there’s been a fad in our industry of having open workspaces. While being right next to someone and being able to just look over and ask a question is ideal for communication, it can be the opposite for concentration. Headphones with loud music don’t solve the problem either. What I believe works best is quiet. Can you imagine taking a final exam in college with someone blasting music? You can’t concentrate at your best when any sort of external stimuli is demanding some of your attention. It needs to be quiet, and free of any visual distraction as well. People walking by, a television, anything like this should be avoided for you to stay in the zone. If your office doesn’t have a quiet distraction free area to work in, take it up with your manager. I’m personally lucky enough to get to choose when to work from home, and I often do so when I have a large piece of work cut out for me that I don’t need to communicate much more on."
" Eliminate distractions, and I mean eliminate For a long time there’s been a fad in our industry of having open workspaces. While being right next to someone and being able to just look over and ask a question is ideal for communication, it can be the opposite for concentration. Headphones with loud music don’t solve the problem either. What I believe works best is quiet. Can you imagine taking a final exam in college with someone blasting music? You can’t concentrate at your best when any sort of external stimuli is demanding some of your attention. It needs to be quiet, and free of any visual distraction as well. People walking by, a television, anything like this should be avoided for you to stay in the zone. If your office doesn’t have a quiet distraction free area to work in, take it up with your manager. I’m personally lucky enough to get to choose when to work from home, and I often do so when I have a large piece of work cut out for me that I don’t need to communicate much more on."
Upvoting this, if only for the suggestion to "Don’t think at your desk", which is a strategy I hadn't heard before.
I'm a person who just plain can't think in front of the code. Whenever I need to design something, I need to take pen and some paper, or go use a whiteboard, or go outside and take a walk, or sometimes take a shower (I use a waterproof notepad to write down ideas there). I always struggled with this, seeing how my friends can sit for 8h/day in front of computers coding good stuff, and I need to take walks outside eve…
Seriously?! Very very cool. I should get one of those.
I'm reminded of following Daniel Kahneman's closing notes in his books 'Thinking Fast & Slow'. So, after listing all biases and quirks (to which he has devoted his life), he writes:
What can be done about biases? How can we improve judgments and decisions, both our own and those of the institutions that we serve and that serve us? The short answer is that little can be achieved without a considerable investment of effort. As I know from experience, System 1 is not readily educable. Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues. I have improved only in my ability to recognize situations in which errors are likely: “This number will be an anchor...,” “The decision could change if the problem is reframed...” And I have made much more progress in recognizing the errors of others than my own.
Mostly reasonable advice. An important step was missing though. Editor / IDE setup anyone? And in regards to that, I would like to point out one particular thing that might seem trivial. Color scheme. I think most people don't realize how much a proper color scheme helps reduce eyestrain, and hence general irritableness. Not to mention saving your eyes in the long run... High contrast between foreground and backgroun…
I don't know if all the stuff about blue colour curves and stuff is accurate but what I do like is that it reduces the "staring into a lamp" feeling you get when the sun goes down (and in the UK at this time of the year that is pretty early).
has the author never tried foam ear plugs before...? " Eliminate distractions, and I mean eliminate For a long time there’s been a fad in our industry of having open workspaces. While being right next to someone and being able to just look over and ask a question is ideal for communication, it can be the opposite for concentration. Headphones with loud music don’t solve the problem either. What I believe works best i…
has the author never tried foam ear plugs before...? " Eliminate distractions, and I mean eliminate For a long time there’s been a fad in our industry of having open workspaces. While being right next to someone and being able to just look over and ask a question is ideal for communication, it can be the opposite for concentration. Headphones with loud music don’t solve the problem either. What I believe works best i…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a person who just plain can't think in front of the code. Whenever I need to design something, I need to take pen and some paper, or go use a whiteboard, or go outside and take a walk, or sometimes take a shower (I use a waterproof notepad to write down ideas there). I always struggled with this, seeing how my friends can sit for 8h/day in front of computers coding good stuff, and I need to take walks outside eve…
> I use a waterproof notepad to write down ideas there Seriously?! Very very cool. I should get one of those.
has the author never tried foam ear plugs before...? " Eliminate distractions, and I mean eliminate For a long time there’s been a fad in our industry of having open workspaces. While being right next to someone and being able to just look over and ask a question is ideal for communication, it can be the opposite for concentration. Headphones with loud music don’t solve the problem either. What I believe works best i…
You wear foam ear plugs at work?