2017-10-02

2017-10-02 11:38 pm
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#2 poor focus

Ah forget it I'm going with the numbered posts after all :3

My focus takes a terrible hit when I get home.
I'm actually usually quite productive at work. It depends if something happens, like a flustering team lunch or 1:1 meeting, that I need to process, or if something else is breaking my attention all the time, like a IM chat that I get distracted by and keep on participating in. But in general, I think I'm more diligent than most -- no need for reddit or facebook, etc. I might just send little status updates to Rachel here and there, but they mostly help than not.

But oh boy, when I get home. I think that at work, having all those people around to monitor my work (even if they're not really focused on monitoring me) helps. They're like external enforcers.

At home, whether it be tinder, twitter, or whatever I can find to break my focus, eeeep I'll go it every 5 minute and get almost literally no work done.

I have had a lot to journal about but that's another problem when I journal. I also take breaks when journalling and the process takes like a minimum of 5 hours. I couldn't manage it this weekend and only wrote part of a draft and published it privately since it was unfinished.
2017-10-02 11:52 pm

#3 consolation for those with poor focus

If it's any consolation, I have started working.

I'm working on something related to versioning for object storage.
It's 1:20 a.m. and now it's too late to be working on versioning stuff. :'(
I estimated 2 weeks for this feature and it should have been fine, but I guess I am slow sometimes due to days of productivity lost and just slow thoroughness.