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A large reason for my career success so far is how I maintain focus in the office. Especially, when your general happiness is influenced by your self-perceived productivity and usefulness as mine is. The absence of which makes everything more difficult. Having everything muddled together makes it much harder to maintain flow. Efficiencies, like eating at my desk, which make sense normally, serve to muddle work and play when everything happens in a 500sqft box. I’ve lived in studio apartments since college and rely on having an office to provide a distinction between working and other activities. The pandemic has made this year significantly worse by forcing remote work. This is great in a way because I have been able to develop deep expertise in my systems and tooling, but the cost is of course burnout. Here at a product company we have been working on essentially the same problems for years. Earlier in my career I worked as a consultant where my longest time on one project was 9 months. I intentionally stayed on my current team for a relatively long period of time just to see what it was like. You could just read them yourself, but do we need 3 people reviewing the same logs right now? Then you end up waiting for other people to do basic things like read logs and tell you what they say. Like when you are in a meeting trying to estimate the impact of an issue with the whole team, but only three out of ten people are actually able to do anything before people are duplicating work. I think it is because when there is less of it, the work feels less important and subconsciously it feels like I’m not really needed.

Counter to what you would expect having less work makes it harder to get that work done than when there is more to do.

Usually, it’s when I get bored of a project or there is a slow period where I don’t have a lot of work to do.

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I’ve dealt with burnout many times in my 6 years as a software engineer. Posted on DecemDecemCategories Uncategorized Leave a comment on Why I stopped going on twitter, using time tracking apps to monitor your time with Qbserve Burnout In the week or so since I quit, I’ve already read a couple books and started writing on my blog again. Most people underestimate how much time they spend watching television, but you don’t have to underestimate how much time you spend on Youtube, just get Qbserve and review the data occasionally. It is a lot like Television for normal people, it is just on all the time when you are home, you don’t really think about it’s effects on your life. I don’t think I would have made the realization of how much time I was spending on twitter, without a time tracking app. Admittedly, I haven’t run the app 24/7 and didn’t start until March so I only have around 8~ months worth of data. I also know how much time I spent writing, note taking and journaling this year, around 30 hours so far. That is nearly double the amount of time I spent on which came in at 1 day and 13 hours. Some people might think “ah, if I’m on the computer I’m working, what else would I use it for” but for millennials and digital natives who spend most of their lives on a computer it can really help.įor example I know how much clock time I spent reading Xianxia, translated chinese pulp fiction, on this year, four whole days. Once you have tracking going it gives you a lot of insight into what you are doing on your computer. I have also used RescueTime, but found logging in again when I need to restart tracking to be a pain. I use Qbserve because it stores data locally and felt like a less heavy weight solution.

There are a bunch of apps that can do it. I could have gotten a part time job or learned to paint. I have been spending thousands of dollars worth of time using Twitter producing fun content that twitter then monetizes. My twitter numbers were way higher than I expected. Well another thing I did in the pursuit of ‘deep work’ is to review my Qbserve stats for the last few months. I’ve typically just blocked twitter from my network during the workday then used it as much as I wanted afterwards. One of the things recommended in the book is to quit social media or at least exclude it from the part of your day when you work.

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I have been listening to ‘Deep Work’ while driving cross country and have done a lot of thinking about how to do better work. I’ve been an avid twitter user for years, but had to stop this winter.

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