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The Upside of Downtime

Keith Brewster on September 09, 2019

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practi...
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Mayuran

Too much of anything is harmful, be it work or free time. Everyone knows this, but it is really easy to forget it because we are always chasing after something. Reminders like these are very important for any person regardless of profession. Balance is key.

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Jan Król • Edited

Great article, and I agree with you 100%. Nowadays there are so many different technologies, that we don't even know when to stop learning. I decided to change my job for the first time recently and I changed the technologies completely, this resulted in two months of hard learning and ignoring everyone around me just to learn those new things. This was not healthy and I wouldn't do that again.

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Bjorn Micallef

It's good to stay up to date or work more hours if the deadline is tight, but doing it on a daily basis is so wrong. I rarely use the laptop for work as soon as I get home and like the author says it's good to have a hobby outside of work. Honestly I can never understand certain developers who all they think about from the moment they open their eyes until they close them, is the software dev world. There's so much more to life than work

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Duc Le

How about the downside of uptime?