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Lessons learned over the last 72 hours
My current project is crunching hard towards a release. This weekend was release weekend. I learned the following things:It’s important to know when you’ve hit 0 productivity. Sign of this: looking at your Skype windows, then switch Spaces to GitHub, then switch spaces back to your Skype windows, then switch Spaces back to Github…. and repeat. Congrats - you’ve reached 0 productivity. I hope you’ve noticed this before you spent too much time literally doing nothing.
If you’ve hit this point more than once, and tried to fix it with breaks, coffee, pairing and magic, but you still find yourself here… it’s time to go home
- After 17 hours in an office chair, half remembered ygoa techniques help… and give about another 1-2 hours of energy
- When your own personal perception of reality gets… “interesting”…, it’s time to go home
- Notice when you’re about to literally fall down
- The worse thing in the world is saying “I’m about to drop”, and a manager saying “Before you go, can you do these three things that would take 30 minutes to an hour?”… at 4 am.
- People who have hit the wall are slightly crankier than they normally should be. I’m sorry.
