A thorough list of practical productivity methods I've used and refined over the last 16 years.
Productivity Hacks
Engineers love nothing more than hacking on our own productivity. At its worst, it becomes its own form of procrastination (hence the term…
30 Incredibly Useful Things You Didn't Know Slack Could Do - Fast Company
These next-level features, options, and shortcuts will save you time and turn Slack into a productivity powerhouse.
The 10 Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering
At face value, when we think of developer productivity we might think of effectiveness in time management, communication, and task completion.14 Although we are drawn to personal workflow or time management tools, and learning secrets to improving our productivity, ironically this quest for the holy grail can sometimes take us off course and be a detriment to our productivity. The problem is that accomplishing tasks or having a filled up schedule does not necessarily equate to productivity. Creating a formulaic working strategy, as was common in the last century, does not either.a,8,13 Productivity is less a quality that can be easily measured,b controlled, or improved directly with tools, but instead is a human element that manifests from developer happiness.
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Productivity
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets...
Measuring enterprise developer productivity
Declaring productivity is easy. Measuring productivity at scale is hard. The SPACE framework developed by GitHub's Nicole Forsgren and colleagues addresses this challenge.
Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing
Sometimes deliberate roadblocks can be a good thing to get more efficient and effective products and workflow. Here's how.
Study Hacks - Decoding Patterns of Success - Cal Newport
The Study Hacks blog by author and professor Cal Newport - on deep work, success, productivity, work-life balance.
Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer | Zachary Betz
My high-level workflow looks something like this: identify the problem to solve; think on the problem and let ideas percolate; research, discuss, and experiment with these ideas; implement and test the solution; deliver and maintain the solution.
Productivity styles and why they matter for you and your team - Inside Atlassian
Discover the the four different productivity styles, how to tell which one is yours, and how to use this knowledge to do your best work.
An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
Open M8 Tips Tricks and Findings
Open M8 Tips Tricks and Findings Various things we’ve discovered, or really handy info pulled from the meetup videos, web forums, etc, that aren't necessarily documented in the manual. I’d like to keep this document focused on useful, utilitarian tricks you can use when working specifically w...
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Todoist Inspiration
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
There's No Such Thing As Software Productivity
Bill Caputo, through repeated conversations we've had, has convinced me of something very surprising. It was something that changed the way I think about the world, and how I do my job.