Refactor Your Productivity

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Refactor Your Produc7vity Jeremy Walker @iHiD

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD C8 H10 N4 O2 != Produc7vity

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD You are an individual.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD We are all human and have similar produc7vity triggers.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Let’s talk about me!

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD I’m Jeremy Walker (iHiD) Chief Technical Oﬃcer New Media Educa7on Ltd

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD I work too hard.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 04:49

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Working too hard will break you. It will not make you produc7ve.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Work as li\le as possible.”

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Work smart, not hard”

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Work smart AND hard.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Genius is 1% inspira7on and 99% perspira7on.” Thomas Edison

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD What is Produc7vity?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Achieving or producing a signiﬁcant amount or result” Dic7onary

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Maximising your output for input.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Working a 40hr week? Get 40hrs of results.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Working a 80hr week? Get 80hrs of results.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Mindset

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Mo7va7on

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Sco\ Chacon Github

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Why would you want to get promoted?!” Sco\ Chacon

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD S7ll There Quit

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD S7ll There Quit

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. 3.  Wri7ng sohware. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD I love coding.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Mo7va7on

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Developers love wri7ng code.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. 3.  Wri7ng sohware. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. 3.  Wri7ng sohware. 4.  Learning Something. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD (Gary Bernhardt doesn’t waste 7me on things like logos) Destroy All Sohware

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. 3.  Wri7ng sohware. 4.  Learning Something. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. 3.  Wri7ng sohware. 4.  Learning Something. 5.  Achieving Something. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. 3.  Wri7ng sohware. 4.  Learning Something. 5.  Achieving Something. 6.  Making the world be\er. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1.  Money. 2.  Career Progression. 3.  Wri7ng sohware. 4.  Learning Something. 5.  Achieving Something. 6.  Making the world be\er. What gets me out of bed?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Dr Raymond Buick

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Take ownership of your mo7va7ons and work because of them.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Your work is going to ﬁll a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly sa7sﬁed is to do what you believe is great work…” Steve Jobs

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “…and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Make sure your day-‐to-‐day work excites you!

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Get involved in open source.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Fear.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Fear.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Fear kills crea7vity” Zed Shaw

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Failing sucks.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Failure leads to learning.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “I have not failed 700 7mes. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work.” Thomas Edison

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will ﬁnd the way that will work.” Thomas Edison

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Don’t be scared of failing.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Don’t worry that you’re not good enough.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD The UK has gone health and safety mad.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD A UK government department recently looked at H&S abuses.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “There is a risk that children may impale themselves on the s7cks” Health and Safety Oﬃcer

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD I some7mes think we have the same issue in the Ruby/Rails community.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “If you don't use a strict development method and ideology, then you might run the risk of succeeding.” Hampton Catlin

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Methodologies and procedures are important.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Rails can limit the way you think.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Helpers instead of decorators.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Classes as nouns instead of verbs.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Shoehorning TDD (e.g. Rails view tests)

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Understand the pros and cons of things. Don’t follow blindly.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD VIM.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Use VIM.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Please.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD VIM is awesome.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Invest 7me in mastering VIM.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD You may also use Emacs.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Find solu7ons to problems.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Slow tests?

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD So many ways to help! Use Zeus. Turn oﬀ GC.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Automate all the things.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Be Lazy.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Steve Klabnik

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Ruby Hero!!

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD King of the Distrac7on Trolls.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Somewhere In England… Class CompetitionEntryBlock < Email::Element has_extra_data foreign_key: :element_id do belongs_to :competition end I am in the zone!

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Somewhere In England… Class CompetitionEntryBlock < Email::Element has_extra_data foreign_key: :element_id do belongs_to :competition end I am in the zone!

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Somewhere In England… Class CompetitionEntryBlock < Email::Element has_extra_data foreign_key: :element_id do belongs_to :competition end I am in the zone!

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Meanwhile in his evil lair… …Steve is plowng how to destroy my day.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD What interes7ng tweets shall I post today? …Steve is plowng how to destroy my day. Meanwhile in his evil lair…

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Mwahahaha!! …Steve is plowng how to destroy my day. Meanwhile in his evil lair…

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD @rubydramas Steve’s not evil

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Twi\er is evil. Twi\er is evil.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD @rubydramas

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD DHH adds concerns to Rails router…

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD There’s a conversa7on on the Github commit…

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD @rubydramas

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Turn oﬀ the internet.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Turn oﬀ the internet. (Just your bit, not the whole thing!)

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD No e-‐mail FTW!!!!!

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Every morning I think ‘damn, I'm gonna get SO much stuﬀ done today’, and then I make the mistake of checking my email.” Aaron Pa\erson

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD You have limited thought capacity.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Holding lots of informa7on in your frontal lobe aﬀects the way you think.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Gewng Things Done (GTD).

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Inbox Zero.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Immediately ﬁle everything away.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Safely out of sight, safely out of mind.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Flow.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment” Wikipedia on Flow.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Environment.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Aher years of empirical tes7ng, I've iden7ﬁed the op7mal soundtrack for gewng shit done (tm): silence.” Ilya Grigorik

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Coﬃ7vity.com

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Lifestyle & Health.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Go for a walk” The Healthy Programmer, Joe Kutner

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Twenty minutes of exercise each day can reduce your risk of dying prematurely by 20%.” The Healthy Programmer, Joe Kutner

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD “Five minutes of ac7vity every hour can reduce your risk of developing many life threatening diseases … by 11%” The Healthy Programmer, Joe Kutner

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Breaks.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Sleep.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Levels of Cor7sol (stress hormone) increase.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Levels of Lep7n (regulates energy) decrease.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Levels of Ghrelin (s7mulates hunger) increase.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Insulin levels (regulates blood suger) decrease.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Blood sugar levels rises. You get hungry. Your BMI rises.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Frontal lobe is aﬀected, reducing ability to concentrate.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Your prefrontal cortex is mashed. meaning… You become emo7onally irritable. You struggle to recognise people.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Your memory is fucked.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Sleep.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Input changes output.

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Input = Output

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD Take Away Points

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 1. Work hard if you want to achieve something. Take Away Points

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 2. Know what mo7vates you and get lots of it. Take Away Points

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 3. Know what demo7vates you and avoid/combat it. Take Away Points

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 4. Don’t be afraid. Take Away Points

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 5. Work our what rou7ne and environment lets you achieve Flow. Take Away Points

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Baruco 2013 @iHiD 6. Turn oﬀ the internet (not the whole thing, just your bit!) Take Away Points