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Show Notes
Long time Red Hat colleague Greg DeKoenigsberg and I talk about managing our time–how we get off track and how we fight against letting it happen.
- Red Hat and Open Source Software
- In today’s world of “work” where we sit in a chair and look at a screen, it’s really easy to waste time
- Being on the lookout for those “tells” that give you an early-warning indicator that you’re on the path to wasting time
- “Fake fortification”
- Anxiety about our work and tasks to be completed
- Anxiety vs. procrastination vs. being in Flow
- Flow often happens when we are engaged in meaningful work
- Figuring out ways to get into flow states
- Being able to see the bigger picture of tedious work will give us
- Breaking things into smaller, achievable tasks
- Reduce the amount of time you spend comparing yourself others
- Accept that completing a particular task might take you six hours to complete because you break it into chunks compared to someone else that it comes naturally to
- Building habits around putting structures into place that protect us from doing stupid things with our time
- Working in time blocks (Pomodoros) was a game changer for Greg
- Holding back because we question whether it’s “worth it” or the best use of our time
- John & Greg’s geeky hacks for trying to stay focused
- Having your smartphone nearby is a distraction
- The compound affect of doing things over and over again
- The pros/cons of negative rewards
Resources
- Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday LifeFlow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Tilt365 character strengths assessment (John is certified in this tool and happy to go over it with you)
- Pomodoro technique
- Sand Timers for measuring work blocks and Pomodoros
- Thank You For Being Late by Thomas Friedman
- Bullet Journaling
- Official Bullet Journal getting started page
- Lifehacker dot journaling overview
- Ryan McRae’s excellent resource guide to Bullet Journaling
- HBR: Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking
- Forest App
- Self Control website blocker for Mac
- Wait But Why
Credits
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