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some work is "high context"-- you need to re-assemble some large mental structure every time you start there's a huge energy cost to starting/stopping this kind of work what is a good work schedule or approach for consistently, sustainably doing high quality high context work?

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Feb 10

idk but here's a book about this which i never got around to reading

amazon.com

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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@lisatomic5

paul graham's "maker's schedule, manager's schedule" is probably also relevant and a much shorter read paulgraham.com/makersschedule

9:45 PM · Feb 10, 2022Twitter Web App

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I now have mostly free days w/o meetings, and my problem is more like "what does a sustainable maker schedule look like?" bc it's not *all* 10-hour hyperfocus days, it's something like "hyperfocus monday; tuesday look at exciting new things; wednesday half-day of cleanup..."

Jonas Piva

@piva_jonas

Feb 10

It's a you thing. Is there so much flexibility that experimentation is off the table? I have a writer buddy who published 4 days a week, working 16+ hour days those days if need be. He backed off, years later... sustainable for what duration?

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If it's not scheduled on the fly and has automated support and does not go for very long is there a point where interruptions can occur during high quality, high context work? Like it's one thing to be calling a fight, but it's another thing to be building something?