Productivity Illusion

[cjsmith]

While I may FEEL more productive if I can't access LJ at work, at the end of the day I'm not sure I'd gotten any more done than on any other day.

Darn. I'd been so hoping I would magically turn into a whirlwind of Super-Coder efficiency. (There's something about working at a startup that makes me desperately want to be superhuman.)

Maybe I have been guilting myself over something that didn't actually make much difference. When I'm working a hard problem, I take breaks. I have to. I rapidly become useless if I don't let my brain shake itself out every so often. Maybe whether those breaks are LJ or not doesn't matter.

Hard to say, this early. I'll give it more time. Maybe this change is merely a small positive thing.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I find ten believable too. I figured if I was too lazy to look up a reference to cite, I'd at least quote the conservative number. :-)