I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
How often do you find yourself taking advantage of this flow — do you do anything to try and be productive during these times or just not worry about it because of life?
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Well, I encouraged my partner to take charge of feeding the cats in the evening, and in my last home I put on headphones so I didn't hear them demanding food or the neighbours coming and going.
I find that as I get older I lose the flow much more easily and it can be pretty depressing to have gone all day without achieving much, and start getting in the swing of things towards the end of the day, just to have it all collapse because the doorbell goes and another package arrives.
I deliberately don't check my email until I have a convenient stopping point, and tell people that unless it's urgent they shouldn't call me after 4ish. Teams chat only.
And I know, I know, Teams is the source of great deal of misery itself. We use what our corporate overlords dictate we use!
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5PM-7PM seems to be my sweet spot, which unfortunately clashes with Life Things.
How often do you find yourself taking advantage of this flow — do you do anything to try and be productive during these times or just not worry about it because of life?
Well, I encouraged my partner to take charge of feeding the cats in the evening, and in my last home I put on headphones so I didn't hear them demanding food or the neighbours coming and going.
I find that as I get older I lose the flow much more easily and it can be pretty depressing to have gone all day without achieving much, and start getting in the swing of things towards the end of the day, just to have it all collapse because the doorbell goes and another package arrives.
I deliberately don't check my email until I have a convenient stopping point, and tell people that unless it's urgent they shouldn't call me after 4ish. Teams chat only.
And I know, I know, Teams is the source of great deal of misery itself. We use what our corporate overlords dictate we use!