Unfamous UI/UX-Designer & Frontender ... or simply Webdesigner living in Ober-Ramstadt, Hessen. Running on lots of coffee and hugs from my daughter Ida.
I think that sometimes people jump straight into creating a lot of pretty useless artefacts/documents like timetables and such. Also meetings, meetings, meetings.
Frontend developer by day, iOS developer by night. Currently working on learning iOS development and my own blog, Mike Decodes, where I'm decoding the tech industry. Come hang out with me on Twitter!
Not taking frequent breaks to stand up. It took me quite some persuasion to get my boss to understand that me standing up to stretch and clear my head once an hour is actually improving my productivity! It helps me stay focussed throughout the day instead of hitting a wall at 2:30PM after which I just can't get anything done.
Hey! I'm Dan!
I have been coding professionally for over 10 years and have had an interest in cybersecurity for equally as long!
I love learning new stuff and helping others
Location
Brighton / London, UK
Education
Edinburgh Napier (Postgrad Cert Advanced Security & Digital Forensics)
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Trying to be productive instead of trying to be effective.
Learn the difference:
If you can resolve more jira tickets in a single day, you are being more productive.
If you learn to choose what are the right things to work on, that will have the biggest impact on your project, you are being effective.
It's mostly about getting into the habit of asking "why is this thing important?"
Crunch weeks (longer than 40 hour work weeks) for many weeks. Check out this great presentation about the 8 productivity experiments you don't need to replicate slideshare.net/flowtown/rules-of-p... (not my presentation) Great visualizations, graphs you can share with your peers and management to show the loss of productivity. We've got over 100 years of experiments and we keep cycling through the cult of >40 hour work weeks for getting stuff done.
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To-do lists, to some degree.
I am a fan of bullet journaling. I also do not get how overly elaborate, Instagram-worthy to-do lists or notes help with productivity.
I think that sometimes people jump straight into creating a lot of pretty useless artefacts/documents like timetables and such. Also meetings, meetings, meetings.
Not taking frequent breaks to stand up. It took me quite some persuasion to get my boss to understand that me standing up to stretch and clear my head once an hour is actually improving my productivity! It helps me stay focussed throughout the day instead of hitting a wall at 2:30PM after which I just can't get anything done.
Good point! There is something to be said for doing things for the hell of it, only to find the hugely beneficial later.
Trying to be productive instead of trying to be effective.
Learn the difference:
If you can resolve more jira tickets in a single day, you are being more productive.
If you learn to choose what are the right things to work on, that will have the biggest impact on your project, you are being effective.
It's mostly about getting into the habit of asking "why is this thing important?"
Reading just a documentation without implementing it, seriously even you read it day & night you still gonna forget everything #cmiiw
Crunch weeks (longer than 40 hour work weeks) for many weeks. Check out this great presentation about the 8 productivity experiments you don't need to replicate slideshare.net/flowtown/rules-of-p... (not my presentation) Great visualizations, graphs you can share with your peers and management to show the loss of productivity. We've got over 100 years of experiments and we keep cycling through the cult of >40 hour work weeks for getting stuff done.
Multi-tasking 🤷♂️
Focusing on only one task is the key. "The One Thing" is a good book that touches the topic :)
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