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Re:Ask HN: I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful abou... by 13ren on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @10:29AM (#346319)
Sounds exactly like "intensity cycling". You work hard, progressively improving, til you stop getting gains. Then you take a week off where you do virtually no work, to recover. Then, you start again at 70% of your previous peak, and work up again.

It's from weight training. I just heard of it a couple of days ago, but it's eerily similar. Also, plain common sense (but I needed to hear it). http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/79fu6/7_ways_to...

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Re:Ask HN: I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful abou... by tdavis on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @05:38AM (#347299)
I've had to do that with regard to weight training before, I didn't think it was something that could be generally applied though!

Thanks for the tips, kaens. I will certainly keep them in mind in the future.

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Re:Ask HN: I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful abou... by fallentimes on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @05:58PM (#348093)
I think that's what Wufoo does - vaca every 2 months. Granted I doubt they did it their first year out.
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