Schedule disciplining

  • Early morning: Project management: correspond, touch bases, review next action lists, send email and participate in meetings.
  • Late morning: Do some writing then brew some coffee and spend a couple hours putting out fires and tackling the big, ugly tasks. Or just keep rolling with a productive morning meeting.
  • Early afternoon: Sheer, in-the-zone productivity to meet this week’s development goals.
  • Late afternoon: More coffee, more coding, and follow-up project management: demos, meetings and emails.
  • Evening: Get a life! Unplug, invest in hobbies and relationships. Experiment with new tech for the fun of it.

Each day focuses on a single project. Morning development will only vary from that when an urgent issue needs addressing or a big hairy project needs some extra initiative. Afternoon will be as unplugged and isolated as possible.