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Being Present and Productive

At Continuity, we’re always concerned with being our most productive and happy selves. A few of us have spent some time studying meditation and came across this talk from last year’s Burlington Ruby Conf.

At Continuity, we’re always concerned with being our most productive and happy selves. A few of us have spent some time studying meditation and came across this talk from last year’s Burlington Ruby Conf.

Fighting Burnout: Incorporating Rest Into the Software Development Workflow - Nick Cox - Burlington Ruby 2013

Here’s our takeaways…

  • Actively improving our mental state can improve our productivity.
  • Micromeditations - in that little bit on down time
    • Focus all your attention on your breath.
    • Take a deep breath in. Hold. Slowly let it out.
    • Unit test? - take a few deep breaths
    • Feature spec? - take ten
  • Completely removing context switches can reduce stress quite a bit
  • Sleep well, meditate, keep healthy habits (exercise and diet) and you’ll be happier and more productive.

Most importantly…

Be excellent to eachother

:wq