From: Craig Maloney Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 01:37:12 +0000 (-0400) Subject: More about containers and how it worked for writing this book X-Git-Tag: 0.5.0^2~46 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5facdc74aee8ff02ab58fb9d33d020e674714e4;p=themediocreprogrammer.git More about containers and how it worked for writing this book --- diff --git a/chapter05.md b/chapter05.md index ed6879f..eabbe44 100644 --- a/chapter05.md +++ b/chapter05.md @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ The underlying concept for the container is just to agree to work in the contain I'd like to invite to to take on this practice of doing focused containers. I think they're an excellent way to give ourselves permission to focus on one thing at a time without the need or worry for what will get accomplished during that container. It limits us to focus on one thing at a time and do it to the best of our abilities. The limitation of working on one thing at a time without thinking about the other bits of work that we have to do can be liberating and I hope that you will at least get a sense of what fully-focused work can feel like. +This whole book was created and edited using focus containers. I took about 10 minutes each span to write the initial draft, and later I took additional 10 minute containers to edit the book. Sometimes they bled over into 15 minutes but that was because I was so engaged with the material that I didn't want to stop. This was in sharp contrast with how I've normally written things, which require me to get over the initial hurdle of allocating a half-hour or so to writing. With this I think to myself "I can just take 10 minutes to work on this" and gradually I see the progress unfold with each container. + ### FIXME ## Distractions