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Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact
- alphadevx 12y agoI came to conclusion many years ago that in order for a planning routine to have staying power for me it had to be: 1. Real simple 2. Require minimal effort If it fails both of those criteria, chances are you won't stick with it for too long. The planning itself becomes something you have to plan into your schedule, for example from the post: "The bulk of my weekly planning takes place on Sunday evening." Sorry but that's not going to work for me.
- jmnicolas 12y agoFrom the article : "I find this works best to do the night before / or each morning (rather than do every day on Sunday evening) as I found that things can change during the week (meetings go in the diary etc) which throws everything out."
- howardvk 12y agoGood point - I should have mentioned in the article that this whole Sunday process takes me 30 mins - 45 mins. For me that's a great investment of time and I sleep really well looking forward to a week ahead that I'm in control of! Appreciate what works for me doesn't work for everyone though
- hacktheplanetx 12y agoI wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation. Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.
- iN7h33nD 12y agoNice satire
- timboslice 12y agoI heard you like life hacks, so I hacked this post together for you
- staz 12y agoI have done a translation for the non hackers: I wake up to my smurf alarm clock, quickly smurf myself up and go to shower, I smurf through it quickly and smurf myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to smurf my socks, pants and other smurf essentials before smurfing my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to smurf myself and sprint to the trainstation. Smurfing away at some wordpress themes and finally a master smurf to change the colorscheme of my xterm.
- marban 12y agoAnd yet no time for Growth Hacking?
- tachyonbeam 12y agoAnd my personal motto is "Hack the Planet!"
- Zelphyr 12y agoFeh. I'm happy just hacking the Gibson.
- ultramancool 12y agoBut The Planet is part of Softlayer now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_Internet_Services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_Internet_Services
- tristanho 12y agoI want you to know that I laughed at your comment (plus your name) probably harder than anything else this week.
- npsimons 12y agoNice picture - where's the content? Comes up blank.
- learnstats2 12y agoJavascript is required to fade the text content in from white to black... Javascript fails = you see white on white.
- elvis635 12y agoI also browse with JS disabled and it sucks when people don't properly have a fallback in place, even if it's just one click for me. Even more when those things can be done by css and thus not breaking when JS is not enabled But the question is: why? Why fade the text content from white to black when the content is below the fold and by the time I see the content it's already black? It seems quite a useless effect to me
- andygcook 12y agoI developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I'd just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning. If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn't, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused to avoid "fake work" like meetings, emails, etc. I eventually coded it up into a simple tool for myself that I still use every day. I haven't focused on marketing so I'm honestly the only user, but I'd love if the folks here could check it out and tell me what you think - http://three.do http://three.do
- rhodin 12y agoNice site. On the front page it would be nice to see what it looks like after a couple of weeks using: will the user see a "heat map" of activities done/not done?
- andygcook 12y agoThanks! I'm working on designing a heat map feature similar to GitHub commits that'll show you a historical record of how you're doing over time. My eventual plan is to build a team version, so instead of asking your teammates, "what are you working on today?" you could just check out their three most important tasks. There would also be a weekly wrap up email sharing who did what for the week.
- fsiefken 12y agoThat's similar to the ZenToDone system with the 3 daily MIT's (most important things) http://zenhabits.net/purpose-your-day-most-important-task/ http://zenhabits.net/purpose-your-day-most-important-task/ There is an iphone app
- andygcook 12y agoThanks for sharing. I didn't know about this one and will check it out.
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- grandalf 12y ago- I spend a few minutes before bed reading/thinking about the thing I'm going to do the next morning. - The sooner I start hacking after waking up in the morning the better. - I wake up an hour earlier than necessary and hack from a coffee shop (with a press pot) before my commute starts. - I budget the time during my commute (train) in 5-10 minute goal-oriented intervals. - I listen to Bach piano contrapunctus if the ambient noise gets distracting. I find it hard to get enter the zone quickly with a hiphop mix or any kind of hipster music.
- erikb 12y agoKudos to everybody who can follow such a detailed plan. I would probably not even finish to write one down.