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Thank you for taking the time to come back and write this. There's a lot here to digest so i'm going to take some time to do that but i'll try to come back and reply properly when I've had chance to do that. I'll drop you a message via your keybase profile, too. Hope you're doing ok and managed to get some sleep last night!
Thank you. Lot's of great advice here, thanks for taking the time to write this all out.
Thank you, I am in the UK and I'll follow up on this.
> All that to say, it sounds like whatever you have been doing has been fruitless, or at least appears this way to the man in charge of your brain. Either you haven't been hitting consistent milestones, or the payoff isn't really rewarding.
You know, this really hit home. I have very much failed to set milestones, or even properly break down the project into smaller chunks - in my mind it's just "the project" and sometimes it seems huge. I'm going to map it all out, then tackle it in smaller chunks. I'll hit the easy, quick tasks first - maybe those small wins will give me the motivation to tackle the bigger tasks. Thank you.
You could be right, I'm soon to turn 40 so maybe my brain is just slowing down and I can't ask as much of it as I used to. Hopefully a better diet and more exercise can counteract that to some degree.
Thank you I'll (try to) give this a watch!
This makes a lot of sense, thank you. The expectation to always be available on teams, to reply to email quickly is very strong at my workplace. My apple watch means that even if I'm making a cup of tea, or using the restroom I still see when people are trying to contact me, or when one of the systems sends an alert so I'm never truly offline.
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brainrot on Saturday September 02, 2023 @11:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Forgive the throwaway but I'm opening up for the first time about this...I used to be able to set myself a task and focus on it until I finished. I could imagine a product and build an MVP in a weekend, flesh it out in a month and launch it. Now I can't focus on my tasks for more than a few minutes, I'm constantly context switching, procrastination is killing all productivity even for tasks...