Hacker Bits, April 2016
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Work for only 3 hours a day,<br />
but every day<br />
By NON UMEMOTO<br />
I<br />
am an indie iPhone developer,<br />
and I’ve been working for 3<br />
hours every day for almost 2<br />
years now. It may not work for<br />
everybody, but I started this<br />
habit in early 2014, and I have<br />
continued to do it since have I<br />
found that this is the most productive<br />
way to work for me.<br />
Taleb and DHH<br />
advices<br />
I first got this idea when I<br />
watched the talk by DHH (Rails<br />
creator) in the startup school.<br />
He was saying this:<br />
“Working long hours isn’t<br />
productive at all, if you<br />
work for 8 hours, try for 5<br />
hours, or only for 4 hours.<br />
If you only have that time<br />
to work, you don’t have<br />
time to see Twitter while<br />
working.”<br />
Also, when I read the book<br />
Antifragile by Taleb, he mentioned<br />
that the trick to working<br />
in a productive way over a long<br />
period of time is to only work<br />
for a short amount of time every<br />
day.<br />
Making money on the App<br />
Store is really tough, and people<br />
don’t care how many hours<br />
I spend on my apps. They only<br />
care if it is useful or not. This<br />
is a completely result oriented<br />
world, but personally, I like it.<br />
I have always thought about<br />
how I can optimize my time to<br />
work effectively, and after I tried<br />
a lot of different ways, I found it<br />
best to limit my work time each<br />
session for the best result in the<br />
long run.<br />
Spaces are a very important<br />
factor in UI design, and that theory<br />
holds true for working.<br />
Why 40 hours a week<br />
didn’t work<br />
I can choose how I spend my<br />
time since I am making my own<br />
apps, so first I’d been searching<br />
for the most effective way to<br />
divide my work time weekly and<br />
monthly.<br />
hacker bits<br />
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