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Discussion on: How do you limit or avoid procrastination?

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Michiel Hendriks • Edited

Get rid of active distractions. That means disabling everything that produces notifications of any kind. Only failing build results should be a possible notification.
You can read your email 3 times a day, when you get in, when you got back from lunch, when you wrap up your days work.

Reduce time to verified work. Waiting for things like compilers or tests will cause you to wander off. Your builds and unit tests should be small. You should be able to verify your work without too much waiting.