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Coda Hale lives in Berkeley, CA, where he writes about Ruby on Rails, usability, web design and development, and the occasional bit about bicycles.

Let’s get distracted!

Dave Seah’s got the same problems I do:

…since I work alone, it’s my job to keep myself motivated and away from the dozens of daily distractions that suck productivity out of the day:

  • You should backup and defrag the server, Dave, it’s making funny noises…
  • The time to investigate AJAX is now, Dave, before your skills completely rust into obsolesence…
  • It’s time to recatalog your MP3 collection, Dave, for maximum listening efficiency…

But he’s got a super-neat chart to keep him on track:
Chart Thumbnail: When is something worth doing?

I just wonder how long it took him to make that… and how long it would take to make a Rails-based, Web 2.0 implementation…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 at 11:52am and is filed under Miscellany. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

27th Sep 2005 11:52am Miscellany
 

One Response to “Let’s get distracted!”

  1. Dave Seah Says:
    September 27th, 2005 at 4:35pm

    It took about 2 years of floundering, then 2 hours of farting around in Illustrator CS2 as a “hm, this isn’t Freehand, but it ain’t so bad I guess” exercise to make the chart.

    Ok, your turn :-)