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Choose a concrete task before adopting a routine

Productivity & deliberate work videos

Productivity videos are more useful when they change how you approach a real piece of work. These starting points focus on preparing a talk and thinking through a software problem, rather than promising a universal daily routine.

Prepare the communication or clarify the problem

Winston’s speaking lecture is the more practical choice when a presentation has a date and an audience. Hickey’s Hammock Driven Development argues for deliberate thinking before and away from implementation. Choose according to the bottleneck: expressing a result clearly is different from understanding the problem you should solve. After watching, define one observable change to your work. A satisfying explanation or a borrowed schedule is weaker evidence than a better draft, decision or working result.

Choose a starting point

Questions to take into the video

A practitioner’s routine is not a general psychological law or treatment for attention difficulties. The advice needs adaptation to your responsibilities, collaborators and kind of work.

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