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SmellyGeekBoy on June 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Psychology of Dreaded Tasks

What job do you do where you can be productive while interrupting yourself every 3 minutes to update a text file? Or am I misunderstanding something?

redmaverick on June 12, 2018 [–]

3 minutes is an arbitrary time limit, you can set it to anything. This forces you to act. Once you get to a flow state you can turn off the program.

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