Tag: #focus
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 18 posts
18 posts are tagged #focus; the most recent was published on 2026-07-26.
Often tagged together: #productivity 11 #mindset 7 #deep-work 6 #career 3 #developer 3
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The Illusion of Time Management — Why a New Tool Never Changes the Day
If you have switched task apps five times and the day still looks the same, the problem is not the tool but the total volume of your commitments. This post covers the planning fallacy named by Kahneman and Tversky, corre
2026-07-26 · 11 min read #mindset#productivity#time-management#focus#workA Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind — The 250,000-Moment Happiness Study Run on iPhones
A two-page paper published in Science in 2010 sampled the daily lives of 2,250 people in real time through a smartphone app and reported striking findings: people spend 47% of their waking hours thinking about something
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #psychology#paper-review#mindset#happiness#focusWhy Ichiro Repeated the Same Motions in Every At-Bat — The Science of Pre-Performance Routines
Ichiro's batter's box ritual, Nadal's water bottle alignment, a basketball player's free-throw dribbles. The motions the best athletes repeat are not superstition — they are science. This post looks at the psychological
2026-07-20 · 6 min read #mindset#routine#sports-psychology#habits#focusFlow Is Not an Accident — How to Engineer the Conditions for Deep Immersion
That stretch of total absorption where four hours felt like fifteen minutes was not luck — it was the product of specific conditions. This post walks through the three preconditions of flow that Csikszentmihalyi identifi
2026-07-20 · 7 min read #mindset#flow#focus#sports-psychology#productivityThe Truth About Dopamine Detox — Focus Myths and the Science ♪ Listenable
Dopamine is not a pleasure chemical but a signal of motivation and prediction. This piece examines the scientific basis of the trendy dopamine detox and, evidence in hand, cheerfully explores what really helps focus in a
2026-07-01 · 28 min read #culture#dopamine#attention#focus#neuroscienceLife Is a Long Game: Making Regret-Free Choices With Your Future Self ♪ Listenable
If the you of three years from now looked back at the choice you are making today, would they regret it or be grateful? Using your future self as the standard for decisions frees you from the trap of short-term focus and
2026-06-19 · 34 min read #future-self#long-game#decision-making#mindset#self-improvementDivide and Conquer, No Procrastination — You Can Do It All ♪ Listenable
Big tasks feel overwhelming, so we keep putting them off. But broken into small pieces, you actually can do it all. This is about divide and conquer, the two-minute rule, momentum, and tracking systems to finish without
2026-06-17 · 23 min read #productivity#procrastination#focus#mindset#habitsWork That Pours In Rather Than Gets Planned — How to Handle Adhoc Work
How to work when interrupts arrive more often than planned tasks. Triage, funneling intake, batching and protecting focus time, the trap of urgency, managing expectations, automating and documenting recurring work, and p
2026-06-16 · 14 min read #career#productivity#workflow#focus#mindsetDeep Work — Designing Focus for People Who Make Things
Focus is not an innate talent but a system you can design. From the cost of context switching to securing focus blocks, managing notifications and meetings, and the clash between maker and manager schedules — here are co
2026-06-16 · 18 min read #deep-work#productivity#focus#culture#remote-workFinOps / Cloud Cost Management 2026 — Vantage / Infracost / OpenCost / Kubecost / CloudZero Deep Dive ♪ Listenable
A single map of the 2026 FinOps landscape. The GenAI-driven explosion in GPU and inference cost, why the FinOps Foundation FOCUS spec became the de-facto common vocabulary, how Vantage took multi-cloud visibility, how In
2026-05-16 · 19 min read #finops#cloud-cost#vantage#infracost#opencostDeveloper Time Management & Productivity Complete Guide: Deep Work, GTD, Calendar Blocking, Burnout Prevention (2025)
Applying Cal Newport Deep Work to a developer daily life. Organizing scattered work with David Allen GTD. Calendar Blocking vs Time-boxing. Slack/Email/Meeting triage. Pomodoro, 90-minute ultradian rhythm, Manager vs Mak
2026-04-15 · 12 min read #productivity#time-management#deep-work#gtd#calendar-blockingIf Seneca Used Slack: A Time Philosophy for the Always-Connected Developer
Seneca's radical claim that time is our only true possession cuts directly to the heart of the modern developer's attention crisis. Two thousand years of Stoic wisdom, applied to the age of Slack notifications.
2026-03-18 · 16 min read #seneca#time-philosophy#stoicism#focus#digital-minimalismCsikszentmihalyi's Flow: When Coding Becomes Meditation
This is the conceptual guide in the focus series. It explains why flow matters to developers through Csikszentmihalyi's model, deep work, interruption psychology, and the line between healthy immersion and burnout.
2026-03-18 · 17 min read #flow-theory#deep-work#csikszentmihalyi#focus#productivityDopamine Betrayal and Reconciliation: A Neuroscience Productivity Guide for Developers
Dopamine is not the pleasure hormone — it's the "wanting" hormone. From Kent Berridge's incentive salience theory to Anna Lembke's pain-pleasure seesaw: how to reclaim sustainable motivation from the technology that hija
2026-03-18 · 8 min read #dopamine#neuroscience#motivation#productivity#developerSports Psychology Deep Dive: The Mental Game That Separates Champions ♪ Listenable
A complete guide to the psychological skills that separate elite performers from the rest. Covering focus, confidence, arousal control, mental imagery, choking, and team psychology — with the science and practical techni
2026-03-17 · 21 min read #스포츠심리학#멘탈트레이닝#focus#루틴#자신감Work Smart: The Complete Productivity Guide for High Performers
From the 80/20 rule and Pomodoro to GTD, Deep Work, automation, and tool recommendations — everything high performers use to get more done in less time.
2026-03-17 · 17 min read #productivity#work-smart#time-management#focus#efficiencyDigital Detox and Deep Work: A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Focus in the Age of Constant Interruption
This is the interruption-control guide in the focus series. It focuses on notification hygiene, async boundaries, response norms, and a four-week reset for teams and individuals whose deep work is being fractured by cons
2026-03-16 · 6 min read #productivity#focus#deep-work#self-improvement#digital-detoxFlow State Engineering 2026: Designing Immersion Using Neuroscience
This is the canonical guide in the focus series: a practical system for designing repeatable flow sessions through challenge calibration, feedback loops, distraction control, session architecture, and measurement.
2026-03-16 · 8 min read #flow-state#focus#deep-work#neuroscience#productivity