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Focusing on what matters
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:headline: How to avoid the information overload?
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:date: 2016-03-17
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:tags: focus, time-management
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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 etc.
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I need to.
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And this thing makes me feel uncomfortable at the end of the day, because I
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feel that I missed something. That I missed some good time, away from news and
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agitation.
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Working remotely is sometimes hard. Hard because you need to at the same time
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be in the discussions channels and work on the interesting projects. A real
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myth.
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In practice, I'm really bad at multi-tasking. I tried a few times the *Pomodoro*
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technique, which forces me to focus on a task for 25mn, but this split of my day
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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, I'm not
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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 best
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way I found to work is to unplug the cable. Literally. At work, at some point I
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was using a RJ45 cable to connect to the Internet. When I wanted to work on
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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 litterally,
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without even noticing, switching to your browser an opening 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 lolcats
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VS the rest of the web's content), so sometimes you need some precious bit of
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information that's there. Fair enough. plug the cable, do what you **need** to
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do, and unplug. Alexis, unplug!
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It also helps to have some fair bit of documentation available directly on my
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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, and I'll
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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, before
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working, to keep my mind clear. I would say at 2pm (after lunch).
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(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 I don't
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need to.
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Let's see how it goes :)
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