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From the series "Tales Of Mere Existence" by Lev Yilmaz
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Oct 10, 2023 3:16 PM
TalesOfMereExistence
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From the series "Tales Of Mere Existence" by Lev Yilmaz
Help Lev make this series at https://www.patreon.com/LevniYilmaz
Sorrontis
never?
AeonQuasars
Before I got kids this was my life, now I don't have focus at all.
ButtBot9900
I focus best when I have something else even more important to ignore.
TalesOfMereExistence
Well put.
BythepowerofchristIamtheLaderlappen
I spend a bit of time so that im not focused. On what? Past events that overtake current events, the more i focus the more a distorted reality will set in. I find im happiest when im smoking a little weed( with restrictions of course). It lets me focus on the moment im in and melts away some anxiety.
DichotomusPrime
Never. I have to carefully manufacture the correct lighting, stimulation, music, and space to make it happen, and sometimes it still doesn't. God I hate being AuDHD sometimes.
TalesOfMereExistence
When I prepare that much, I start to feel pressure and the whole thing can backfire
DichotomusPrime
To be clear, it's more "I've carefully created an atmosphere in my office that enables me to work." I like ambient, warm lighting in general. When it's work time, the main changes are: I put my hoodie up (if it isn't sweltering), put on my noise cancelling headphones, shut the door, put on some jazz/lofi, and start a labeled timer (I use Toggl). If my brain is REALLY cobwebby that day, I journal to sort the thoughts out.
quietwalker
I'm a dev and it's hard for me to enter code mode. The biggest barrier is whether or not I think I'll be interrupted. If I think I'm going to be hungry, or kids will want something, or I need a nap or I have bad alleries ... it's hard to even start. Past that, drink, snacks, music-or-tv in the background to provide a low level noise that works like white noise and drowns out the background.
tinyfootprints
Also dev here. Looking for employment, get online test. Hmm... I am an absolute demon coder once I get rolling, but I am a very slow starter. I've had 5-minute tests time out before I wrote a single line of code, but I've also often written programs estimated by management to be a month's work, in a few days. That kind of skill is hard to demonstrate in a demo or interview though. But even the threat of an interruption is enough to derail me.
TalesOfMereExistence
I would never be able to do anything with the TV on, but I do have a white noise machine.
quietwalker
I found that having absolutely no distractions is distracting. Like, "It's too quiet". Music usually works. Having like, old star trek TOS or my box set of every bond movie ever running on the side.
tinyfootprints
I wish non-devs would understand that even a 5 second interruption is likely to throw us off our game for at least 20 minutes.
quietwalker
Yeah, context switching is a bitch. The normal person can keep between 5-7 things in the forefront of their brain. When you're coding, you're still a normal person, but you need to juggle 20-30. It takes a while to build up to it, and if someone interrupts, you have to start over from ball 1.
tinyfootprints
I tend to think of the process of designing code kind of like building a house of cards. One bad move and it comes crashing down.