When you get work done, reward yourself:
- Enjoy a snack
- Go on social media
- Play your favorite video game
This will trigger your dopamine and make your brain associate positive feelings with work.
Give me 3 minutes and I’ll save you hours of wasted time this week:
When you get work done, reward yourself:
- Enjoy a snack
- Go on social media
- Play your favorite video game
This will trigger your dopamine and make your brain associate positive feelings with work.
Distractions can destroy focus:
• Turn off notifications
• Save social media for after deep work
• If you have an iPhone, turn on Focus Mode in the settings
There are unlimited distractions and limited focus.
Protect yours.
Not all tasks are equal.
Some tasks are busy work, others are productive work.
1. Grab a pen and paper
2. List out the lever-moving tasks
3. Work on those, ignore the rest
What you work on is more important than how you work.
1. Determine the tasks that move the needle
2. Schedule them into your day
3. Block out everything else
Softwares you can use to help with this:
• Todoist
• TickTick
• Things 3
• Google Calendar
Use tech, don't let it use you.
If you set a deadline for 8 hours, it’ll take 8 hours.
If you set a deadline for 4 hours, it’ll take 4 hours.
Challenge yourself and set deadlines sooner than you think you can do it.
You’ll focus 2x easier and get more work done than you thought possible.
You’re a human, not a robot.
Giving yourself breaks keeps your mind fresh and more productive.
After every 2 hours, give yourself a 20 minute break.
• Take a nap
• Go on a walk
• Have a snack
When you return to work you’ll be ready to go.
Not everyone can multitask effectively.
If your brain isn’t designed to do multiple tasks at once…
It’s better to do one thing at 100% than 5 things at 20%.
Focus on 1 and you’ll get 10x returns.
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A brief analysis and comparison of the CSS for Twitter's PWA vs Twitter's legacy desktop website. The difference is dramatic and I'll touch on some reasons why.
Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.
6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices
https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x
PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.
735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices
https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ
The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.
The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.
Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.
6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices
https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x
PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.
735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices
https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ
The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.
The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.
