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Re:Imagine yourself starting, not finishing by losteric on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:59PM (#11931515)
I'm partial to TDD because it's great for that "simple task"/error-fixing mentality. About 30 minutes before leaving, I make sure I have a couple failing tests and leave them that way when I leave.

Whenever I get back to work, I can just jump in... any kind of work interruption benefits the same way.

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Re:Imagine yourself starting, not finishing by nyc4life on Sunday June 19, 2016 @12:02AM (#11931726)
This reminds me of a practice Ernest Hemingway supposedly used to maintain his productivity. He would purposely stop writing for the day when he was in a state of flow and knew what he would write next, so that it'd be easy to resume his progress when he came back to his desk the next day:

http://www.secondactive.com/2009/08/boost-your-productivity-...

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