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Re:How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So by lscharen on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:38PM (#14266914)
I totally get it; I also need a separate space to switch mindsets.

Your setup reminds me of an article I read many years ago on these sorts of "tricks" to stay disciplined when working from home. One of the tips an individual used was to

  1. Walk out his front door
  2. Lock it
  3. Walk around the block
  4. Re-enter the house
And he was now in "work mode". At the end of the day, he reversed the process by walking around the block in the opposite direction in order to "get home".

Seemed quite brilliant to me at the time.

edit: Just noticed that enraged_camel engages this exact technique below.

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Re:How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So by jdswain on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:22PM (#14268432)
I used to do something similar. Go out but to a coffee shop and do my emails and planning, then go home and start the real work. I just found it too hard to go straight from breakfast to working at home without some sort of routine to switch to a work state.
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Re:How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So by mcbain on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:01AM (#14271217)
When I was working remote for 12 months I did the same kind of thing. I had the added extra of living alone as well.

It forced me to get up, shower, put clothes on, see some kind of sunlight, even have a tiny bit of face to face interaction with another human at the convenience store/cafe/sidewalk, and then get home, log in, and probably just procrastinate for an hour or so anyway - but at least I was clean and dressed.

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Re:How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So by hartator on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:48PM (#14267017)
What's enraged_camel?
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Re:How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So by grzm on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:53PM (#14267078)
HN member 'enraged_camel: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=enraged_camel

Your parent is referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14265636

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