I have discovered a pattern that after around 3 hours of deep mental work I am exhausted and I can’t do anything any more that day.
What are your strategies to get more work done, or just to not feel miserable for the rest of the day?
I have discovered a pattern that after around 3 hours of deep mental work I am exhausted and I can’t do anything any more that day.
What are your strategies to get more work done, or just to not feel miserable for the rest of the day?
I’m honestly only good for a few hours a day. I do my thinking, usually come up with something good, then basically fuck off because unless I’m feeling very inspired that’s as much as I’m going to produce.
Now when I’m inspired by something I’ll go like 18 hours straight, but it’s been a long long time since work inspired me like that.
So in that down time I walk to the coffee shop, take a nap, browse the internet, whatever.
Like, yesterday morning I made some code that needs to run daily 150,000x cheaper. Literally saved us a few grand a month. I expected like a 10x improvement. But I could only do that after not thinking about it for the weekend.