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Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
#26:30 wake up
7:00 drive to BART in walnut creek
7:15 park at Walnut Creek Bart
8:00 get off BART at Montgomery
8:05 arrive at office
8:05 - 9:00 grab breakfast, informally sync with Product Managers
9:00-10:40 code alone
10:40 standup meeting
11:00 - 12:00 informal design discussions with team mates, lots of white boarding
12:00 - 1:00 grab lunch, play super smash brothers with colleagues
1:00 - 4:30 push changes to prod, review code, pair program
4:30 head to BART
4:35 head upstream on BART to civic center
4:45 catch BART from civic center (get a seat)
5:35 get off at Walnut creek
5:40 drive home
6:00 arrive home, eat, play with kids
7:00 kids bedtime, free time for parents (generally try to spend this together)
9:00 go running
10:00 wife goes to bed, I'm less of a sleeper so I usual stay up another hour or two working on side projects or sometimes just playing video games.
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#4Wake up at an unknown point in the day or night, somewhere in the continental United States or Central America.
Assess the situations my wife might have gotten into while I was sleeping and do triage, or wake up gracefully.
Determine which emails and phone calls need a response and reply as briefly as possible.
If we're going somewhere else, prepare the mobile lab for departure and get under way. Otherwise enjoy wherever it is we are.
Connect with business partners and make any outstanding decisions required for that time.
Connect with F/OSS collaborators and audit any outstanding bug reports or feature requests.
Scout around the area with my wife, figuring out what about where we're currently staying is worth coming back for.
Eat something in the local area or come back to the mobile base and make something.
Assess situation of deliverables and code on most mission critical pieces due soonest.
Unravel some visionary pieces coming in the mid/long term and discuss future scenarios with advisors and agents.
Take on a large piece of code that needs to be written, or a large bug that needs to be weeded out.
Make a campfire, have a beer... maybe cook something on the fire.
Watch a few episodes of something on Netflix with my wife... assuming 4G access or WiFi in the location is stable enough.
Either turn in for the night/day or continue with more of whatever large coding project I took on.
Periodically communicate with partners, collaborators, or clients passed to me by agents managing contacts.
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#5Wake up at an unknown point in the day or night, somewhere in the continental United States or Central America. Assess the situations my wife might have gotten into while I was sleeping and do triage, or wake up gracefully. Determine which emails and phone calls need a response and reply as briefly as possible. If we're going somewhere else, prepare the mobile lab for departure and get under way. Otherwise enjoy wher…
Is this like your dream day or your real day?
Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
#6Wake up at an unknown point in the day or night, somewhere in the continental United States or Central America. Assess the situations my wife might have gotten into while I was sleeping and do triage, or wake up gracefully. Determine which emails and phone calls need a response and reply as briefly as possible. If we're going somewhere else, prepare the mobile lab for departure and get under way. Otherwise enjoy wher…
Is this like your dream day or your real day?
I forgot to add Obsessively track HackerNews, GitHub, and StackOverflow
Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
#7Wake up at some time X.
Check Slack, and my google calendar for the day.
Open up asana, check our priority queue and ensure my in progress/upcoming are set accurately (remote team, so this is very important)
I work mostly with data scientists. So, some days it's pure cowboy coding. Experimental and research stuff. Lots of image processing, NLP, and API design stuff.
After I finish the first task of the day, contact the Chief Scientist/senior data scientists. Review, consult, plan if we can do more to it or if its worth 'graduating' to a larger product.
Or, if its a larger, production project consult with product and VP of eng as well. Ensure all delivery needs are met.
At the end of the day we have an informal chat of no specified amount of time. The 'end' of the day is often midnight-1am-ish for us because we have people in 5 time zones. We try to be as flexible as possible especially with a guy in South Korea.
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#85:20 - Wake up - Take a shower
5:45 - Leave for the office (to avoid MAD traffic)
6:15 - 7:15 - Read a book
7:15 - 7:30 - Breakfast (office), catch-up local news
7:45 - 8:10 - Hacker news/Reddit/Techcrunch et al ...
8:30 - 11:15 - Office work / side projects
11:15 - 11:45 - Tea break (office)
12:00 - 12:50 - Office work/ Side projects
13:00 - 14:30 - Gym
14:45 - 16:00 - Office work/side Projects
16:30 - 17:00 - Tea break
17:30 - 19:45 - Office work/side projects/hacker news et al ...
20:00 - 21:00 - Drive back home
21:00 - 22:45 - Read a book
22:45 - 05:20 - Sleep
... a tight loop of trying to define life...
Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
#9Based on my more recent schedule:
7:30 Wake up
7:50 Get on my bike and ride to school (or bus if I had a rough night)
8:00 Go to class (occasionally an hr break b/w class which I use to enjoy a book)
11:00 Finish class; walk/ride home
12:30 Make lunch
1:00 Start doing problems for Systems Programming class
12:00 Go to bed.
Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
#105:20 - Wake up - Take a shower 5:45 - Leave for the office (to avoid MAD traffic) 6:15 - 7:15 - Read a book 7:15 - 7:30 - Breakfast (office), catch-up local news 7:45 - 8:10 - Hacker news/Reddit/Techcrunch et al ... 8:30 - 11:15 - Office work / side projects 11:15 - 11:45 - Tea break (office) 12:00 - 12:50 - Office work/ Side projects 13:00 - 14:30 - Gym 14:45 - 16:00 - Office work/side Projects 16:30 - 17:00 - Tea b…
This is an average day? That seems to me like an awfully long time at work. I'd like to ask a few sincere questions. Do you really enjoy being in the office? Do you feel compelled to be there? Do you choose not to have outside activities, or is it a side effect of this schedule? Thanks for the reply, if you choose.