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John Dilig

I do feel the same, and I got a tip from a more senior colleague about managing your time AT WORK. Here's how I understood it, and broken down:

(with the assumption that work starts at 10am)
10am-12pm - stand-ups, early meetings, and answering emails/messages

  • use this time to do "office" tasks, get a few needed talks & discussions done here 12-1pm - most likely lunch time (can go over, depends on occasion)
  • make sure to be able to relax, and not get too pressured to do "extra work" 1-4pm - focused/coding time
  • there's the idea of a 4-hour workday, where the most realistic duration of time you're actually "working" is this long. <- definitely a very opinionated statement, so please let me know what you think 4pm onwards - extra time
  • if your office day in 8 hours, you'll have 2 extra hours to do what you need to do (more discussions, learning, emails, etc.)

I was able to try it, until I forgot that I was bad at time management... and completely disregarded the whole thing after a week...