Do something you love is utter garbage. 
  
 If something takes 2 mins of your time do it now. In fact I block 1 hrs of time daily to do such 2 min things. Somethings get done, somethings go into next day.

Product Manager

My mottos are, “better bored than busy,” and “the overscheduled life isn’t worth living.”

Manager

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How many of us can really follow this productivity schedule?

Operations Manager

How many of us can really follow this productivity schedule?- Grapevine

Gadgets? Furniture? Apps? Frameworks? Mindset? Fitness? What all did you try and what worked for you? Any communities that you can suggest for productivity and resources.

What all do you do to be productive at work?

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

How many of you actually only work 9-5? Do you get paid for overtime? Is Indian corporate culture disconnected from the 40-hour workweek belief?

Is 9-5 a myth in India?

Total disconnect... most of us do not work 40Hrs a week -every week.. sometimes its 60hrs some times its 20.. but the main requirement is we need to pretend to be busy. That's what's defines a hard worker in our country. 
productivity and efficiency gayi baad mein.... if you  finish your current work, you  need to find the next. or you can continue the current work for as long as possible.

Consultant

Copywriter

How do you productively utilize your weekends? How do you upskill and how much time do you spend on that? Tell me more on how do you upskill and even manage personal life along with that.
I just began my career and wanted to know this.

Productivity during weekends

Software Developer

fellow engineers, what tools or hacks are you guys following to be more productive?

i am using todoist and keep notes to keep track of my tasks but often missing them and not able to be consistent as there are tons of tasks to get done which require atleast 3-4 subtasks.

i have tried pen+paper, it is a little better, but still looking for some better options, please help me out!

how to be more productive?

Anyone who has cracked it?

Gym 4 days a week. 
 6-8 hrs of work + Leetcode daily + any one other productive item 
 My recreation is music. Listening and playing, that happens in the last 2 hours of the day. It gets replaced with going out generally. 
  
 I also do a trade off between items daily, as per priority, so it sort of works out. 
  
 Anymore items and I breakdown and need a break. So avoiding burnout while being productive is a daily thing. 
  
  
 The one thing. Read this book 4 months ago, did wonders for me mentally.

Staff Engineer

Currently i am facing too many tasks that my manager is assigning to me. because of this i am not able to focus on other life activities like gym, swimming, etc. i log in at 8 and work till 8 , also i get very exhausted after coming from office.!? What should i do.!? Also the performance review week is near i.e next month.!?

Zero Work Life Balance..!!

Software Engineer

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It’s should and will always be about how productive those hours actually are. 

You see, no knowledge worker puts out more than 2.5 to 5 hours of real work in a day. That’s 12.5 to 25 hours of productive work in a week. The rest? It’s just meetings, updates and moving things around.

Five-day work weeks? If you’re measuring by butts in seats, sure. But if you’re looking at actual output, it’s a joke. We need to obsess over productive time, not clocking hours. The attendance/week hours mindset is a pseudo-metric killing the workforce, making us focus on quantity over quality.

Think about it: As a knowledge worker - your days are filled with meetings, status updates, and email threads. How much of that is real, impactful work? Very little. We’re stuck in busyness, mistaking it for productivity. But then again, if orgs obsess on outcomes only, employees will call them out: 'You don’t see my effort to go from A to Z, you don’t acknowledge it.' Hence, orgs measure you by hours. And for those thinking, 'Pay me by hours, overtime factored in' – great on paper, but useless for knowledge workers.

IMHO, we are way more more comfortable measuring by hours than outcomes.
We rave about deep work, about focus hours, but in reality we laude how long someone stays logged in. 

Weird isn't it.

The real debate isnt / wasnt about how long the work week should be (70/60/50/40).

Human Resource

Want to get into a better routine - be productive at work, eat mindfully, workout now and then.

Wanted to check what you guys do to stay disciplined - any mental models or apps that I could use?

Folks, what are your best productivity related apps/tools?

Corporate Strategist

Guys, I’m struggling a bit with my time table. Could you please help me out? What should be a good if not perfect time table for a software dev.

My time table is:
Wake up at 9 and do all work
Do the work from 10 till 1
Lunch and Nap
Continue the work till 7 O’clock sometimes 7:30
Hit the gym till 9
Come back and take bath
Dinner at 10 (almost)
DSA at 10:30 to 12:30 (Preparing actually)
Sleep at 1.

Now, this doesn’t seem fine to me. Help me out if you have any idea to fix this.

Thanks

What should be the time table for a developer?

Listen folks, you should totally work 70 hours over two weeks. Most of you do already. 

If you factor in lunch and some tea breaks that you normally take during the course of the day, the most productive hours you put in are about 7 hours a day for 5 days a week. So 70hrs is totally doable. 

Prove me wrong.

Working 70 hrs should be the norm

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For me 5 - I start by 11 and end by 7 but take an hour lunch break, 4-5 tea/coffee breaks and some gossips - I tracked one day and it was 5.2 hrs.


What about you?

How many hours do you actually work per day?

I have adhd so I don't (read : can't) work until 2 days before sprint is about to get over then wrap the stuff up with anywhere between 8-10 hours pn both days.

Don't just say exercise, meditation. How do you get self motivated for these?

What do you do for being more productive at work?

Do you believe this is true? If yes, what could be the reason?

What do you think about this?

Analyst

Ok now, good tips on how to stop procrastination and actually get stuff done?

There's no 1 answer to it. It cannot be solved in an instant. I attend therapy to deal with issues in my life. I find Procrastination a single most disastrous thing in my life.  
    When discussed, I was told that focus on self Discipline. Here are things i was told - 
 1. Try to make a timetable which has all the indulgences you do(netflix etc) and also the work you wanna do, experiment with time tables to understand what works. 
 2. Try to get to root of the problem when you procrastinate. Find out why you are doing it. I do it knowingly as in, I am consciously aware of it. I am now in pursuit of finding why I do it when I do it and sticking to a plan I make. 
 3. I have made a note of how harmful Procrastination has been in my life, how it has affected so many aspects of my life 
 4. Procrastination is a way of dealing with your emotions so that you get the immediate dopamine hit instead of a reward far later in your life. So, I am told that it's like having a relationship with yourself. You reason with yourself and understand why you are procrastinating, what emotions are you feeling that is making you procrastinate and how do you solve for it! Remember, being hard on yourself is just gonna make matters worse! Always do truth seeking for these things, be kind to yourself. Little by little you should be able to navigate.  
  
 Unfortunately without knowing what kind of Procrastination you have, it's not advisable to take up my points. I suggest consult with a therapist and talk it out and solve for it!

How to manage time for DSA while working 9pm to 5pm?

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P.S : Company made strict wfo policy, from last week.

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