11. GETTING BACKTO FLOW
REFACTOR (SMALL) PIECE OF CODE
MAKE (COSMETIC) UI CHANGE
ADD (SIMPLE) TEST
SOLVE (EASY) BUG
START UNAMBITIOUS
12. FLIGHT
GO WALKING/RUNNING/BIKING/DAY OFF
SLEEP ON PROBLEM (LITERALLY)
WORK ON PET PROJECT
LEARN NEW FRAMEWORK/LANGUAGE/TOOL
SUBMIT CONFERENCE/MEETUP PROPOSAL ¯_( )_/¯
TAKING A BREAK IS REASONABLE CHOICE
13. GOOGLE "20%"
3M “TIME TO THINK”
SPOTIFY “HACK WEEKS”
APPLE “BLUE SKY”
ATLASSIAN "FEDEX DAY" ,"INNOVATION WEEK"
14. “When you’re focusing, you’re actually
blocking your access to the diffuse mode.
And the diffuse mode, it turns out, is what
you often need to be able to solve a very
difficult, new problem.”
Barbara Oakley, "A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at
Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)"
15. BUT DO NOT FORGETTO TAKE BREAKS
MAYTHE FLOW BE WITH YOU