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About a year ago, I started working independently from home. Being totally in control of my own time & environment really removed all excuses! If I'm not having a good day, it's no one's fault but mine. I found that a steady routine really helped.

Some things that worked for me:
* same pre-work routine every day (wake, exercise, shower, meditate, walk dog, make coffee)

* start the day with my hardest creative work (2h+ writing): notes.andymatuschak.org/My_morning_wri…

* big-chunk working blocks: 7:30-10, 10-noon, 1-4
* during working blocks, I alternate between 35m focused unitasking and 5m breaks

* no internet until after first block, intentionally-scheduled internet time afterwards

* I usually only take meetings after 4; if I don't have any, I'll do email and little tasks 4-6
* afternoon is usually execution-oriented for me; morning is usually creative (my focus weakens later in the day)

* I take an intense midday walk (the pup insists!)

More: notes.andymatuschak.org/My_daily_routi…

What are some unusual components of your WFH routine?
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Andy Matuschak
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Filmmakers, composers, and playwrights carefully author the time dimension of their work. The feeling of a pregnant pause and an accelerando comes from viewers' experience of passing time. Those mediums express a few hours’ evolving experience—what about days, months, years? 👇
Cultural institutions often author experiences that stretch over longer time scales (e.g. multi-year religious coming-of-age rituals). But mass mediums rarely do.

That’s an unfortunate limitation: mass mediums give authors enormous reach!
Books have a longer time dimension, but it’s generally unauthored.

Books often take months to read. But they almost never have an *authored* time dimension like that of films or plays. The days and weeks are rarely specified by the author the way minutes are by a filmmaker.
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Andy Matuschak
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How should we evaluate tools for thought? There's no simple metric, as far as I can tell. The best tools change your paradigm anyway, so your old metrics (books printed per year?) aren't what matter.

Here's one (vague, but focusing): how much meaning is unlocked on the margin?
That is, you can talk about Mathematica's value by asking how many students use it, or if it helps their test scores, or by timing people solving problems using different tools. But its most significant value is in producing marginal profound mathematical insights.
It's all a variant of Kay's "Sistine chapels per generation," I guess! But the marginal meaning doesn't have to be a grand edifice: Twitter's most powerful metric as a tool for thought is in creating transformative (off-platform) personal connections.
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Andy Matuschak
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It's "annual personal review" season! Lots of people are writing about setting their 2020 goals, or looking back on what worked or didn't in 2019.

Those practices are cool, but in this thread, tell me—what's the most _unusual_ "annual review" practice you enjoy? 📆👽
(One of mine: what's the best single thing I ate this year? [This year: a grilled diver scallop, served plain in butter, at Angler. I wept! I ordered another.])
This is less unusual, but it's a time of year when many people are thinking about starting/changing habits, so I'll also re-share this weird approach to habits. Wrote this two years ago—still works great, have used it to start many new habits since then! blog.andymatuschak.org/post/169043084…
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