David (@hellodavidryan)
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David (@hellodavidryan)
Software entrepreneur Ray Ozzie has a specific technique for handling potential interruptions — the four-hour rule. When he’s working on a product, he never starts unless he has at least four uninterrupted hours to focus on it. Fractured blocks of time, he discovered, result in more bugs, which later require fixing.
Shane Parrish • Maker vs. Manager: How Your Schedule Can Make or Break You
The first is education. It’s important that your team understand the difference between workflows and work execution, and why the hyperactive hive mind is just one workflow among many—and probably not a very good one.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Their core developers were brilliant, but they also had a second level of junior developers and offsite or second-site teams that were allowed to slip into an attitude of “code monkey-ness”—micro-focused on building “just this feature,” not thinking about how that single feature would integrate into the whole and unaware that some of the things the
... See moreDavid Scott Bernstein • Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software
In the large projects Brooks was speaking about, where teams of hundreds or thousands are working against schedules and initiatives with mutual dependencies, the size of the effort bounds the speed of the work, and the overhead of communication and coordination swamps the impact of individuals, even the geniuses.
Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
It’s become fashionable to blame distractions at work on things like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. But these things aren’t the problem, any more than old-fashioned smoke breaks were the problem 30 years ago. Were cigarettes the problem with work back then? The major distractions at work aren’t from the outside, they’re from the inside. The wander
... See moreJason Fried • It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
The Power of the Marginal
paulgraham.comBusiness is broken the same way that car was. The effort that goes into looking productive is not merely wasted, but actually makes organizations less productive. Suits, for example. Suits do not help people to think better. I bet most executives at big companies do their best thinking when they wake up on Sunday morning and go downstairs in their
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
