I apparently got 50% better at my job last month | benkuhn.net

I apparently got 50% better at my job last month | benkuhn.net

I apparently got 50% better at my job last month …by spending 50% more time on the important parts instead of Slack/email/busywork/things I do when I'm unfocused. I actually didn't even notice until I checked my monthly RescueTime report—at which point I realized I had gotten an extra 40 hours of engineering work in September compared to August. I had no intuitive sense of that difference—if you'd asked, I'd have guessed my engineering time in September was roughly the same as August. It's disturbing to me that I didn't notice such a huge difference. On the other hand, a consistent difference of 80 minutes daily can easily be swamped by the 3-4 hour day-to-day swings depending on my schedule, level of focus and how much I feel like working. So I can sort of understand. Here's the comparison of my RescueTime reports: Category August September 280 h 286 h As the table shows, it's not just that I had more time in September. Instead,

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