Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
by steveklabnik on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @03:21PM
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Sounds like Structured Procrastination to me.
Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
by chegra on Thursday September 30, 2010 @06:17AM
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I for one would appreciate a blog post on this. I'm pretty sure the rest of the community are there right along side me.
Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way
by chuhnk on Thursday September 30, 2010 @07:50AM
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Thank you for posting this comment. I don't know why but this completely makes me think of context switching in the kernel and everything then becomes clear. I am guilty of "multitasking" and at the end of it accomplishing almost nothing, only recently have I realised the error in my ways. Your recent work and comment are confirmation that focusing on one thing at a time is the way forward when working on substantial tasks.
In a nutshell, I quit trying to explicitly plan and organize my life (not that I was any good at that) and instead I have a giant bag of things I need to do. There's usually a bunch of projects, and each has a todo list. All I do is when I have the time to work on one AND the motivation, then I go bang out as much as I can until I can't. By having lots of different little projects I'm pretty sure I'll always have something to work on that motivates me at that time.
The only caveat on this is I then do one thing at a time. I see too many people who can't get their todo list down are usually trying to do 5 things at once. A good sign you're this kind of person is if you love patch queues. Just do one thing, and make sure before you do it that you can do it. Don't juggle 10 things at once.