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Re:Working for someone vs. doing your own thing by yellow_lead on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:00PM (#22051664)
Agreed, 30 mins is not enough time to get into "deep work" for programming. At best you could do some business-y tasks.
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Re:Working for someone vs. doing your own thing by Robin_Message on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:36PM (#22056250)
I reckon TDD would get you at least part of the way there, because it enforces a discipline of making smaller, meaningful changes. Hard to learn though, and some things genuinely do need longer.
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Re:Working for someone vs. doing your own thing by ptah on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:32AM (#22053365)
on the contrary it can make you more productive. for one it forces you to take a step back regularly instead of blindly going down a potentially wrong path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

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