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Happy to answer any Adobe app questions people might have. I say Adobe because HTML extensions are pretty platform agnostic; basically just a website in a panel. What matters is what you want the host app to do. So AE, PS, AI etc are all developed in a similar way. If you're a designer and have an app idea, feel free to ask questions. (The article might answer many, though.)

Agreed. It seems to me that burnout from work would only be qualified if burnout from play was a thing - because work to the fortunate among us, is play. Managing expectation is key, or more palpably perhaps - anticipation. The scientist, Robert Sapolsky, has done some interesting work on how dopamine affects behaviour. He shows that we get far more pleasure/dopamine from anticipation [future] rather than reward [present], where dopamine dries up. Our endurance is largely about our perception of the future. Good video here if anyone is interested: https://www.theguardian.com/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2...

A lot of good answers but I'll throw mine into the mix. Assuming I know what the ultimate goal is for what I'm currently working on, the day-to-day becomes working towards what I call momentum tasks for the next morning. The start of the day is when I'm at the highest risk of being derailed, so super easy tasks are paramount. So before I wrap up for the day, I'm making sure I'm stopping at a point where I know - and perhaps am excited - to continue the following day. I never stop at an impasse, personally. That means I can sometimes put extra work in, but generally I come up with momentum tasks quite intuitively. I'll write my todo list before going for a 5k run after work [typically ~5pm to reset my brain for relaxing a bit, and often get ideas for how to overcome larger challenges that comes with the concreteness of thinking about momentum tasks. I find self-set constraints really helpful in my productivity. I am generally a pretty boring person, though, so it suits my personality. Just my 2 cents.