As I have been working in a focused manner over the last few months at my desk at home, I’ve discovered some things that make the experience much more enjoyable. When you sit in one place for 48 minutes straight it’s nice to have music playing, a beverage, a comfortable chair, and good lighting. When [...]

I’ve been under the influence of some huge projects at work this month. Projects that are tedious at best. I work with databases and all sorts of data on a daily basis. Sometimes data can be a 500 pound gorilla on your back. Currently I’m moving over 60 specialized user accounts from one server to [...]

Over the past two months I have experimented extensively with the idea of a focused work period. The concept is to take an hour time interval and divide it up into two periods. The longer period you work in a focused manner on one task and only one task. The other shorter period is for [...]