{"id":21829,"date":"2018-06-15T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21829"},"modified":"2018-06-15T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:20:27","slug":"how-to-improve-your-productivity-as-a-working-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/how-to-improve-your-productivity-as-a-working-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Improve Your Productivity as a Working Programmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/malisper.me\/how-to-improve-your-productivity-as-a-working-programmer\/\">Michael Malis<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danluu\/status\/926492239081197569\">Dan Luu<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/malisper.me\/how-to-improve-your-productivity-as-a-working-programmer\/\"><p>I now schedule meetings specifically at the times of the day when I&rsquo;m least productive. It doesn&rsquo;t take a ton of energy to sit through a meeting, and scheduling my day this way allows me to work when I&rsquo;m most productive. Think of it this way. If I can move a single 30 minute meeting from the time when I&rsquo;m most productive to the time of the time at which I&rsquo;m the least productive, I just added 30 minutes of productive time to my day.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After watching a recording of myself writing code, I realized I was spending about a quarter of the total time implementing the feature tracking down which functions the bugs were in! This was completely non-obvious to me and I wouldn&rsquo;t have found it out without recording myself. Now that I&rsquo;m aware that I spent so much time isolating which function a bugs are in, I now test each function as I write it to make sure they work. This allows me to write code a lot faster as it dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes to debug my code.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At the end of every day, I spend 15 minutes thinking about my day. I think about what went right, as well as what went wrong and how I could have done better. At the end of the 15 minutes, I&rsquo;ll write up my thoughts. Every Saturday, I&rsquo;ll reread what I wrote for the week and implement changes based on any patterns I noticed.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Malis (via Dan Luu): I now schedule meetings specifically at the times of the day when I&rsquo;m least productive. It doesn&rsquo;t take a ton of energy to sit through a meeting, and scheduling my day this way allows me to work when I&rsquo;m most productive. Think of it this way. If I can move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-15T20:20:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"f3a07ba6-0f25-4c21-934d-0b1ad2c27b3f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-15T20:20:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A86B7pg8lTCGTTQsa0sJ7Pw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[708,71,268],"class_list":["post-21829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-getting-things-done","tag-programming","tag-testing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21830,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions\/21830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}