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If it helps, you can get AI to do the admin task of time tracking automatically, at least for anything that it is involved with.
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While I agree with this (and what a refreshing thing to say indeed!), I would like to offer this as well: If you can’t focus on some task - you can also treat it as a signal that maybe the task is not worth focusing on in the first place…
I currently can't focus on my work that pays the bills. Given your logic I should probably quit my job. I kid you not, that's literally the thing I've been considering all day, maybe it's a sign. So this is great confirmation.
One reason I am not giving my two-week notice is that I don't like "difficult conversations" with my manager.
I don't understand the problem here. If you cannot focus, just focus more? More structure/checklist to force you to focus will have other side-effects like you found out. When you get rid of the structure, you still need to have a rough map in your mind of where you want to go. To me, this is similar to being honest. You don't want to depend on a system or checklist for being honest. It is something you always need,…
> If you cannot focus, just focus more? Why don't homeless people just get a house?
(I seem to have misplaced my bootstraps. Has anyone seen them lately?)
record start and end times with the project name, then eventually assign that project to a bucket
Maybe track half the time and YOLO the rest
What focuses me is remembering this mantra attributed to Steve Jobs: Real Artists Ship The idea that nothing you’re working on is real until you ship it to customers, users, or whoever the stakeholders are. Helps a lot against bouncing between lots of projects and not making much progress on any of them.
I don't understand the problem here. If you cannot focus, just focus more? More structure/checklist to force you to focus will have other side-effects like you found out. When you get rid of the structure, you still need to have a rough map in your mind of where you want to go. To me, this is similar to being honest. You don't want to depend on a system or checklist for being honest. It is something you always need,…
> To me, this is similar to being honest. You don't want to depend on a system or checklist for being honest. It is something you always need, as a policy. Focus is like that. If you want to focus seriously on something, just make it a policy, and don't use all these tricks as crutches.
I found that I need a lot of guardrails and "crutches" as you said to be at peak productivity. Maybe something is wrong with me, or maybe it's the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I spent a few months doing some coarse time tracking at work - basically I'd retroactively add and edit events on my calendar to reflect what I had actually done during the workday, down to 15 minute increments. I binned them into IC work, meetings, interruptions, and non-work stuff. While I did get some insights about where my time was going, it mostly just made me really anxious and input-oriented about my producti…
Regarding the 8 hour, I've just come to realise that I can't get 8 productive hours in a day (I want to say most people can't but maybe I'm projecting). I track every day and the good days have around 5 hours tracked. The bad days around 2