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<h1 class="post-title">Focusing on what matters</h1>
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<time datetime="2016-03-17T00:00:00+01:00">17 mars 2016</time>
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<p>I do have a problem with information.</p>
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<p>You know. I <strong>have</strong> to check my emails, irc, twitter, my feed reader
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etc. I need to.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>In practice, I’m really bad at multi-tasking. I tried a few times the
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<em>Pomodoro</em> 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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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 <span class="caps">RJ45</span> cable to connect to the Internet. When I
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wanted to work on something, I could just unplug this cable.</p>
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<p>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…</p>
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<p>Of course, that Web isn’t filled only with lolcats and twitter messages
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(even if I would <strong>love</strong> to see a pie chart with the repartition of
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lolcats <span class="caps">VS</span> 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 <strong>need</strong> to do, and unplug. Alexis, unplug!</p>
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<p>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!)</p>
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<p>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:</p>
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<li><strong>Check emails only once a day</strong>. Do <strong>not</strong> 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)</li>
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<li>Stay away from the Internet during the morning. I’ll not connect if
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I don’t need to.</li>
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<p>Let’s see how it goes :)</p>
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