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Title: Focusing on what matters
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Headline: How to avoid the information overload?
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Image: images/focus.jpg
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Image_link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hansel5569/9397600663/in/photolist-fjragD-9EXcd5-oe2p14-23iTigF-7KBLmy-asVELm-V2rrkG-nDksc7-egrsJP-kbjM1t-iukTkY-dGKeMh-57E6to-6gH4sT-4ryLBG-78d9ro-7qr1BH-eLPdyP-NPN5q-4MPGmc-2CC4h6-97XaBc-aWRhkz-fmVQnq-bS2XY6-bUvhrL-Veeu3u-6p8SBC-c8Ppwm-57d3ZA-3fK6eh-mLrXp8-frHAzg-e8Tu86-6UH6FK-aUK8Zn-sqN8q-98bEdm-jbdFEj-TLTpDx-4Nxj1-9YfCgz-dhR16n-e2SELM-9JkbuY-WVomjJ-VSuCfC-iiapMh-gAjfm9-QVxcU2
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image_author: 55Laney69
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image_license: CC BY-NC 2.0
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I do have a problem with information.
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You know. I **have** to check my emails, irc, twitter, my feed reader
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etc. I need to.
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And this thing makes me feel uncomfortable at the end of the day,
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because I feel that I missed something. That I missed some good time,
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away from news and agitation.
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Working remotely is sometimes hard. Hard because you need to at the same
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time be in the discussions channels and work on the interesting
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projects. A real myth.
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In practice, I'm really bad at multi-tasking. I tried a few times the
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*Pomodoro* technique, which forces me to focus on a task for 25mn, but
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this split of my day into slices of 25mn breaks my natural flow.
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So, what do I need? I tried to change my tools, it helped a bit. Still,
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I'm not focused like I would like to be.
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Maybe that's just me who needs some more persuasion over myself, but the
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best way I found to work is to unplug the cable. Literally. At work, at
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some point I was using a RJ45 cable to connect to the Internet. When I
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wanted to work on something, I could just unplug this cable.
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And that's amazing how you find yourself in the process to "check"
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something on the web. Mails, irc… well, you got the idea. You're
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litterally, without even noticing, switching to your browser an opening
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a new tab…
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Of course, that Web isn't filled only with lolcats and twitter messages
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(even if I would **love** to see a pie chart with the repartition of
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lolcats VS the rest of the web's content), so sometimes you need some
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precious bit of information that's there. Fair enough. plug the cable,
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do what you **need** to do, and unplug. Alexis, unplug\!
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It also helps to have some fair bit of documentation available directly
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on my machine (I used to have the python docs, I should get it back\!)
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I'm feeling adventurous, so I'll try something new starting tomorrow,
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and I'll report back in here my findings. Here's the challenge:
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- **Check emails only once a day**. Do **not** do it in the morning,
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before working, to keep my mind clear. I would say at 2pm (after
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lunch). (This doesn't mean I will not send mails tho)
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- Stay away from the Internet during the morning. I'll not connect if
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I don't need to.
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Let's see how it goes :)
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