SMART GUY PRODUCTIVITY PITFALLS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The author notes that working around high-productivity professionals like John Carmack made him realize that if you want to excel, then you have to work hard and focus the whole time. One technique he uses is to play a CD while working, and if he was not being productive, he'd pause the CD player. He'd then measure his output for the day by how far he got down in his CD stack. You can replicate this method today using a long soundtrack or playlist on YouTube, Spotify, or other music applications.