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Re:Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56 by Swizec on Friday October 05, 2012 @10:19AM (#4616956)
An interesting thing I've noticed is that burning the midnight oil works really well if I haven't been coding all day. It can work marvelously - it's quiet, nobody bothers me, the internet is asleep and I have a clear focus.

But if I've already spent the whole day thinking, then decision fatigue kills my productivity completely. Some might say I'm just tired, but it isn't related to how much sleep I'd had, just how much time I've spent thinking.

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Re:Yes I Still Want To Be Doing This at 56 by jaggederest on Friday October 05, 2012 @05:16PM (#4618711)
Or even worse, spent the whole day dealing with bureaucracy and mundanity and meetings and crisis management... Forget about getting any actual work done.
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