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Focusing on what's important
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:date: 16-03-2012
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:tags: focus, time-management
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:status: draft
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I do have a problem with information.
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Information overload.
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This thing that makes me check my emails, irc, twitter, my feed reader etc.
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This thing that 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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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. I've tried the pomodoro technique but… I'm not
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yet convinced, mostly because this means me being interrupted every 20 minutes.
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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, I'm using a
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RJ45 cable to connect to the internet. When I want to work on something,
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I 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.
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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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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 twice 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) and at 8pm.
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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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I still need to find a way to be reachable during these off-line periods,
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because that could be very painful for the folks on my team otherwise. (the
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good thing is that my morning is their nights).
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