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Discussion on: How Can High Performers Work Less and Achieve More?

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Rasheed K Mozaffar

In the realm of coding, so many people get caught up over engineering the less important/meaningful things, things like iterating basic design decisions and constantly tweaking them, I was guilty of that for a long time, I used to spend hours upon hours just modifying the CSS while I had significantly more important tasks to work on. Working smarter for me simply means working on the essentials, and not getting caught up in the small details, which can be later revised and consolidated.

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Bjoern

Agree. What helps me a lot is working in short chunks of 25 minutes. Them 5 min break and think about my achievement.

If I feel like the implementation is good enough or it feels like I am procrastinating or working on something that is not important enough I can skip otherwise I can continue on the previous task.

And I always try to formulate before I start what I want to achieve within those 25 minutes and I feel that it helps me super protective and on track.