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Time Management and Productivity for Developers

Ryan Souza on January 05, 2024

Why is time management important? How to manage time? Mental Dimension Physiological Dimension Technical Dimension Time Management Techn...
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Dan

LOVE this post, lots here I already use and benefit from. The tricky thing for me is that it feels like any system or methodology works if I can stick to it, but my consistency is so tied to what feels like arbitrary energy levels :\

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Ryan Souza

There are a lot of techniques to get back to your optimal point of productivity or get into a methodology or system as you said, the most famous is just drinking coffee, and another one is taking a cold shower, I can write an article about that too (motivation).

As the time passes, you get more used to do.

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Dan

For sure, what you mentioned reminds me of habit stacking, priming ourselves with a first step to start a productive cycle. Def am trying to lean less heavily on coffee but cold showers are great!

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Willian Ferreira Moya

Great article, really powerful techniques! I think you shared the 80/20 of the time management techniques that can help us the most! Thanks for the article.

I use the pomodoro technique a lot, speacially when I feel that I'm most distracted!
Sometimes I change the pomodoro settings a litle bit when I can, making 40 to 50 min sessions, and taking longer breaks 10 to 15 minutes. Making this change, I use those break minutes, to answer people, get a coffee, and read small chunks of a book (1 to 3 pages). Doing that allowed me to read 3 books about software testing and it felt effortless.

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Ryan Souza

Nice comment, same here, sometimes I need to change the Pomodoro to fit with the situation but well, I thought that reaching this level of detail in my article would be too much, I mean, if you start to use Pomodoro, naturally you adapt yourself, the time and what you do to get back in focus as well

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Tom Nguyen

Did you use promodo while writing this? :)

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Ryan Souza

How did you know?? Haha, honestly I made this article in 4 weeks.

1° week: searching material and creating topics
2° week: start to write
3° week: images, review
4° week: more review from my friends and I posted,

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Random

Great Article for Developers 🔥 On Time Management.

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Ryan Souza

Thanks for reading! Took a lot of time to write all this

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Ali Nour Al Din

Awesome Blog

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Ryan Souza

Thanks!

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Eri Irawan

Great article, thanks for sharing.

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Ryan Souza

Thanks for reading!

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