Tagged “work”

My friends tease me about liking San Francisco, but I think it’s inevitable to have a warped, unrequited love for the place or person that first revealed you to yourself.

tldr lack of overlapping days off

be faster and more ambitious

Similar worries to a number of the training steps for these.

very HN that first reply is "work on open-source software"

"How can I reduce my time here?" is a good followup question after finding out where one spends time

...and you experience resistance against doing the work, it's worth identifying and articulating that resistance, and then integrating it into the work. once the resistance is inside the work, it doesn't need to act against the work

stretching exercises for people who sit a lot

Current streak: 1 day

A good response to falling out of love with coding. There are times it feels like passion, times it feels like drudgery and work.
There's a balance somewhere there.

Some of these experiences sound terrifying.

Quality is a way of working, and affected by everything

things to make you feel better about your own codebase

I think you drastically over-estimate how "fulfilling" something like therapy is.
Day in and day out you will see people you desperately wish to help, who if they listened to 20% of what you offered would see their lives change immensely, only to watch them repeat the same behavior without change day in and day out.

Do the work. That's all the productivity advice you need, and the only useful productivity advice you're ever going to get.

When you do the work, everything else optimizes itself.

Check back on his blog in a year

"For the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won.

Mentioned in Don't be that open source user

good collection of tips on focus, time management, people management, communication, learning, maintenance, estimates, planning

If your hourly rate gets too high, how to justify doing anything that isn't billable?

Some good work/life balance suggestions and options in the comments

Some good advice on finding ways of enjoying work or life or both, and being wary of taking advice from entrepreneurs - they've gambled and won.

tldr pay too low, work too high. Lot of hiring and prep work and other things during "holidays"

In online discourse, a lot of people recommend job hopping frequently specifically to learn a lot and avoid stagnation, but I think that's generally the opposite of correct.

pitfalls with early retirement; planning for 7 decades of financial independence is a bigger challenge than some claim

1. Keep the lights on, and make keeping them on cheaper. Everything your team already owns (that actually matters to customers) needs to approach 0 maintenance costs.

2. Cut the entire roadmap of new features down to one thing at a time

Some interesting comments on the novelty aspect, routine, familiarity, perception of time

THe daily work capacity estimate for different tasks is a great idea. Should do that.

Some bits on retirement and people figuring out what they want to do.

Some interesting perspectives on who/what people are like when they stop working a while. In terms of boredom, interests, and other pursuits.

I'm not, but good set of questions for decision-making anyway

Suggests coming up with a range of estimates (best/worst case), include assumptions, refine later

Though I don't think I ever worked as hard as the commentor, this bit felt pretty relatable:

One thing that always happened at the end of a semester is we'd have a few days after exams but before flights back home. On these days I'd typically try playing a video game (my hobby before college) and every time I would stop playing after just an hour with deep feeling of unease at the pit of my stomach. "Alarm bells" is exactly how I would describe it - a feeling at the core of my psyche that I have been wasting time and there must be something productive I should be doing or thinking about.

Years later, having tackled anxiety problems that had plagued me most of my life, I came to recognize that my relationship with hard work during my college years was not healthy and that this deep seated desire to do more work is not a positive thing, at least not for me.

Some good tips on ensuring things other than work happen.

Salaries for different levels of job for a bunch of companies

That squares with my experience of software development. It's like being a furniture maker but spending 80% of your time fixing your goddamn hammer because it keeps breaking and no better hammers exist, or consulting glue-drying tables because they keep changing your glue on you every hour or two and for no good reason every single glue performs differently while accomplishing the same thing.

Combo of talk + write-up below is excellent