Refactoring Your Productivity
summary
Shows a photo taken at 4:49 AM after ~14 hours of unfocused coding to argue long hours break the brain; recommends turn off the internet to avoid Twitter/email distraction, and use Vim — two weeks of pain then faster edits and macros. Gives concrete fixes: use Zeus to speed Rails tests, try GC tweaks that claim ~15% gains, automate repetitive ops, take 20-minute walks daily (20% mortality reduction) and five-minute hourly breaks (≈11% disease risk drop).
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 1:28How To Overcome Boredom
- 2:04Twenty Essential Self Esteem Boosters for Women
- 4:58Working Too Hard Will Break You
- 6:49What Is Productivity
- 8:32What Gets Me Out Bed in the Morning
- 9:26Why Would You Want To Get Promoted
- 13:17Making the World Better
- 13:52Valen Buick
- 15:21What Motivates Us
- 18:31National Cotton Candy Day
- 21:23Vim
- 26:41Turn Off the Internet
- 27:42Thinking Fast and Slow
- 28:29Mental Arithmetic
- 29:17Getting Things Done the Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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