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Distractions Cause Bad Code (2018)

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Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)

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Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (2018)

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Document your mistakes and then try to block them in the future

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A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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My work routine: plan, do, learn loops

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Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

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Finishing my first game while working full-time

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

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Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

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Attention is your scarcest resource

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Finishing a side project

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Hours

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Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)

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Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

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Getting too absorbed in side projects

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Reversing the effects of long programming sessions

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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?

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Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

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Consistency and discipline over motivation

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That Didn’t Need to Take an Hour

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How to Improve at Starcraft Efficiently [pdf]

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Why I don’t eat on Mondays

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Write Code Every Day

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Where do you find the time for side projects?

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Fragile Plan vs Robust Plan

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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls

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How to start working on side projects

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Programmer Interrupted

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Developer Time

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Avoiding "the stupid hour"

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Fasting & Programming

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30 minutes a day

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Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your productivity

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The Coding Zone

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Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret

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More screen is better for productivity, studies show

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Day in the life of a Googler (Matt Welsh)

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The daily tomato: How to maintain focus and kick ass on multiple projects

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Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic

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The interruptible programmer

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Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week

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Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret

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Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

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Why do programmers need private offices with doors?

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Getting things done in small increments (2022)

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Making small games, which is fun in itself

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Sit.

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Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects

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Mastering Programming (2016)

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Third Time: a better way to work (2022)

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Use a work journal

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Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry

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How to build quickly

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Do quests, not goals

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