Comment by giorgioz
8 hours ago
Often there is a bell shaped curve where productivity peeks at a point and bigger efforts after that make you actually less productive overall. In my personal experience most projects are a marathon not a sprint. Always sleep the 8-9 hours necessary to feel full-rested. I'm most productive in the morning so I try to work every day during mornings but since in the afternoon I'm a lot less productive I've decided I can allocate that time to entertainment and social activities. My entertainment and social activity tend also to be along learning new things.
Regular morning stand-ups really fuck my morning momentum.
I'm getting my shit done, then I gotta stop and listen to a whole bunch of crap that I either already know or doesn't affect me at all.
Sometimes, in fact often, the level of momentum I had before the meeting is never reached again the rest of day.
All meetings should be post lunch. All meetings I organize are post lunch.