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[[Category:Productivity]]

Latest revision as of 10:27, 19 July 2024

The #productivity-and-motivation channel is a space created in 2021 in the DevTalk discord to discuss tips, experiences and questions around productivity, working habits, motivation, self-care, and getting a handle on things.

Below are key topics that were discussed in the channel. Message links should take you to the rough start of the topics below the link. They are meant as quick bookmarks, so occasionally you may want to scroll up for full context. This page is in chronological order, i.e. newest entries at the bottom.

2021

January

  • Pomodoro
  • perfectionism, when are you "done"
  • resting, recharging
  • motivation through being public

February

  • types of rest
  • failure percetptions around the world, survivorship bias
  • testing out the Intellect app

March

  • paper planning
  • creating a monthly plan
  • paper vs. digital planner (vs. combination)
  • kanban
  • perfectionism
  • self-esteem and its reliance on external factors
  • letting go / finishing a piece of art

April


May

June

July

  • burnout
  • burnout tactics: success journals, minimum viable product (MVP), pacing
  • day job and dev work
  • doing pre-planned work to increase efficiency
  • waking up early / doing mental work at optimum time

August

September

  • prioritizing projects
  • questions to assess project load and relevance
  • reducing project count / increasing focus on specific projects

October

  • tackling difficult tasks first
  • picking up old unfinished works after much time has passed
  • resistance, dread and paralysis, tasks that "have your number"
  • layering production technique
  • burnout
  • public pressure and obligation to others
  • over-visioning leading to too much abstraction

November

December

2022

January

  • rest days, days off
  • recovery techniques, meditation, 4-4-4 / box breathin
  • Headspace app
  • weekly vs. multi-week cycle of rest and work

February

March

  • getting back into routine
  • regaining work rhythm
  • post-vacation loss of productivity
  • high amount of working hours
  • resting guilt

April

May

  • role of chance in success
  • earning success vs. finding success
  • retroactive reasoning for success
  • impostor syndrome origins
  • survivorship bias
  • attributing success to skill, and failure to external factors

June

  • life coaching
  • where life coaching can help
  • guided imagery
  • credientials of coaches
  • being good enough
  • effects of negative feedback
  • defining negative resulys
  • constructive criticism / improvement
  • asking useful survey questions
  • median, mean and mode score
  • overvaluing negative feedback
  • joining multiple jams
  • overscoping, too many deadlines
  • the last-minute VN
  • recruiting a team and its effects on complexity and performance
  • project manager vs. director
  • professional work ethic
  • obligation vs. responsibility
  • project lead's conduct toward team members internally and externally
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
  • building / maintaining trust in a team
  • more reasons to ghost
  • personal accounts of ghosting
  • disruptions in a team via ghosting

July

  • jam productivity
  • plan for half of the jam
  • OtomeJam's high partial completion numbers
  • types of jams and expectations of participants
  • overscoping on the first jam
  • using outlines to manage length

August

  • lack of drive
  • second guessing, lack of self confidence, as a block to creating
  • setting daily goals
  • balancing ambition and achievability when setting goals
  • differentiating between essential and "nice to have" goals
  • carrying tasks over to next day
  • goals based on word count vs. scene (writing)


September

  • being a solo developer
  • structuring general ideas in a way that they can be captured and estimated
  • techniques for breaking down and recognizing unrealistic ambitions
  • the motivating power of guilt vs. self-expression

October

  • Not your fault, but still your problem
  • praise passing, praise in public, criticize in private
  • project lead vs. project manager, leadership
  • responsibility funnel, accountability, professionalism
  • lowering chances of ghosting, checking back, open communication

November

(end Nov 15th 2022)