[FROM THE ARCHIVES] How I get things done.

My timeline is flexible.

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Breakdown

This breakdown includes both work and home days. I'm not going to distinguish the days in detail.

5/8am Get out of bed, get coffee and gas. This time also contains driving 1 hour to work @Linode and listening to audiobooks, I'm able to fit in around 9 hours of audio books per week on average. Audible is awesome.

0630/0930-10: Read emails, reply to emails. This is immediately followed by clearing everything in my inbox. If the email is worth replying to I either email back immediately or respond to the item in Basecamp/Trello or wherever I need to do so. I don't wait unless it's necessary. During this process I also check all of my IRC buffers to see if I need to reply to something there. After this is done I update all of the burndown charts and approve or move anything in the projects and systems I'm responsible for.

Once I'm done reading what's targeted at me, I read everything that's been posted in whatever communication tools I need to since I last read them. Most mornings this is reading everything posted between 1am to 6am. Sometimes I don't have the time to finish so I break it up over the next few hours.

1000-1100: Standup meetings. I attend 2-5 of these in this timeframe. If these aren't a thing I'm reading tech news or internal "news". In between or at the end of I then check email again. I reply as possible or needed. I check IRC again.

1100-1230: Meetings or code.

1230-1300: I try to eat lunch here. This is sometimes turned into finishing things or replying to messages. Sometimes I'm just running from office to office trying to find someone to answer a question about something. It's not a question for myself, it's a question so I can kick something else into gear.

1300-1600/1800: Meetings. Between these meetings I read any new email, check twitter notifications and keywords. If anyone needs help or has feedback I reply if possible.

DRIVE HOME 1hr

1800-2100: Dinner and spending time with family.

2100+: Coding, trying out ideas, and other misc. This is my experiment time. Any new ideas I've written down during the day or week I try to make happen in this time. See my Github for details. There are tons of awesome failures in there.

During all of the times listed above I do not stay sitting at a desk entire time. I make it a point to get up and walk around, drink water, and follow up with people.

In the end the day breaks down similar to Casey Neistat's method but with a good deal more wasted time in the middle.

Tools I use.

Mail: Gmail & Namecheap Private Email

To-do Tracking: Combo = Trello,Basecamp,Asana

Calendar: Google via Pebble or iPhone.

Fitness: Fitbit

IRC Alerts: Pushover to iPhone app. Hilites.pl

Energy: Starbucks

Everything either pushes to my phone via email or Pushover

What I've been doing

At work: The Linode API Alpha and the Linode PHP Lib

At Home: Spending time with family and playing games. Personal: Code. See my Github for details.