Andrej Karpathy

So I can't talk about one day basically in isolation because it's a whole process.

When I want to get productive in the problem, I feel like I need a span of a few days where I can really get in on that problem.

And I don't want to be interrupted.

And I'm going to just be completely obsessed with that problem.

And that's where I do most of my good work, I would say.

Yeah, basically I need to load my working memory with the problem and I need to be productive because there's always a huge fixed cost to approaching any problem.

I was struggling with this, for example, at Tesla because I want to work on a small side project.

But okay, you first need to figure out, okay, I need to SSH into my cluster.

I need to bring up a VS Code editor so I can work on this.

I run into some stupid error because of some reason.

You're not at a point where you can be just productive right away.

You are facing barriers.

And so it's about really...

Removing all that barrier and you're able to go into the problem and you have the full problem loaded in your memory.

And I mean, I can take some time off for distractions and in between, but I think it can't be too much.

You know, most of your day is sort of like spent on that problem.

And then, you know, I...

drink coffee.

I have my morning routine.

I look at some news, Twitter, Hacker News, Wall Street Journal, et cetera.