I have a similar routine and it makes me really productive - stacking different habits is powerful.<p>However, in my experience this approach has one big problem: certain events (changing continents, moving, sickness, finished milestones) completely unravel my productivity for weeks or months. Once I lose the streak it's very hard to get back on track.<p>I either have to rebuild a new routine step by step or just procrastinate long enough until I've found a new project I can build my work day around. These periods can last several months.<p>Has anyone come up with strategies to cope with such breaks?
I have ADHD and while I'm happy for the author that they've found something that works for them I do not consider my ADHD a superpower. I write this for anyone else that finds that their struggle is greater than any potential boons that they might experience.
This is basically the PDCA cycle (<a href="https://asq.org/quality-resources/pdca-cycle" rel="nofollow">https://asq.org/quality-resources/pdca-cycle</a>) that Edward S. Deming wrote about, based on Shewhart's work.<p>Lots and lots of material out there about this type of process in industrial process design circles, a lot of which is suitable for soft production processes like software development.
As somebody really really struggling with ADD (diagnosed) and burnout due to no productivity wins, I found this article helpful. It may have saved my job.
When I read PDL I thought it sounded familiar. Funnily enough it's from this discussion two days ago (also relevant to this post) - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818894" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818894</a>
I still do the Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA) cycle, also known as a Shewhart cycle or the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, from contemporary project management. I apply it at a personal level, a team level, and a company level. The adjust phase comes in handy when improving developer experience on codebases. A powerful routine but also very tiring :)<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA</a>
This is insanely helpful. Since my ADHD diagnosis, I've been trying to find ways to transform my brain's particular liabilities into assets. The strategies here are a good place to start. I'm intrigued by the idea of interstitial journaling - and I would very much like to see the author's teased post about the process. I've been keeping a paper journal for years now and this looks like a way to get more out of it...