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date: 2020-11-09T16:48
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tags:
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- timeline
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- practices
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- productivity
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# focus requires a rigorous contract
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Balancing many disparate tasks is good for my morale ("Wow! If I get bored with
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this one thing, I can just do something else!"), but feeling "behind" is most
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decidedly _not_ good for my morale. Timeblocking and scheduling are great, but
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they require _discipline_. I like to think that I am effectively entering into
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a short-term contract with myself. If the terms aren't clear, the chances of
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failure go up (significantly). Interestingly, I think this scenario represents
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a conflict of interest: I am basically the party responsible for _monitoring_
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that contract, as well as the one actually executing the work.
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Besides having a clear plan (a statement of work) I think the next biggest
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concern involves distractions. In my experience, you can't get rid of
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distractions, but you can be judicious about _what_ distractions you choose to
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entertain. That gets to the same end-goal of choosing _when_ to focus on
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distractions, but puts a different emphasis on the problem.
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The "hard" part (to me) is that developing the intuition of what to do (and
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when) is much easier said than done. Maybe because it is a constantly moving
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target?
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