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Career Development

Time management

General

  • Manage your time instead of letting it manage you
  • Track where you are spending your time, make estimates, measure then compare to your estimate
  • Put time into a daily schedule (either end of the day for the next day, or at the start of the day)
    • Remove tasks from your list that you shouldnt be doing (out of scope, not your priority etc)
    • Identify the 3/4 most important tasks and do them first
    • Organize tasks based on importance rather than urgency
    • Use the eisenhower matrix to help prioritize tasks
    • Do - Important deadlines with high urgency, complete right away
    • Decide - Often long term goals and strategy, spend most of your time on these
    • Delegate - Often distractions, they are important but dont contribute to your output
    • Delete - Distractions with little value, ignore these as much as possible
Urgent Not urgent
Important Do Decide
Not important Delegate Delete
  • Where possible, group similar tasks togethor, reduce context switching
  • Avoid multitasking, focus on the task at hand and block out distractions, take one task at a time
  • Set time limits on tasks - do not attempt to work on it until its done
  • Build in buffers - short mental breaks after completing a task help with focus and motivation
  • Learn to say no - its better to complete fewer tasks that bring more value
  • Organize your notes / task list, automate repetitive tasks where you can
  • Eliminate distractions - routinely identify your top two distractions and work on eliminating them / reducing their impact
  • Awareness: thinking realistically about your time by understanding it is a limited resource
  • Arrangement: Organizing goals, plans, schedules and tasks to most effectively use your time
  • Adaptation: regularly monitor how you use your time, adjust to interruptions and changing priorities

Beating procrastination

  • The main cause is a lack of self-regulation
  • Resisting the temptation to do something, through willpower and retraining
  • Daily tasks / routine help beat procrastination by building your willpower
  • Mindfulness helps to build willpower
  • Exercise, eat well and drink water
  • Push past your social comfort zone, count 3 heartbeats and act, waiting any longer leads to more opportunity to create excuses
  • The more you overthink the more you procrastinate
  • Plan micro-habits, daily repeatable tasks that take chunks out of a bigger tasks / job
  • Its easier to find the right motivation rather than increasing willpower
    • Extrinsic motivation: usually doesnt work for cognitivte / creative tasks, better for manual tasks
    • Intrinsic motivation: focusing on goals only can lead to unhappiness in the present, reaching the goal gives limited happiness
    • Journey based intrinsic motivation: focus on enjoyable activities that lead to your goals
  • Focus on meaning and purpose
  • Start when you're NOT ready

The Staff Engineer's Path - Notes

Chapter 1

General

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