Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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It's like so... Like, man, if you have tree skin, you have to look here and look there. You get also neck injury, actually.
Command-Tap to Chrome. I used to have this swipe screen, you know, you could do like different screen spaces. Yeah. I was like, ah, it's too difficult. Let's just put it on one screen on the MacBook and then. And you'd be productive that way. Yeah. Very productive.
More productive than before. Interesting.
No, man, I love it. I love seeing it with friends. They have amazing battle stations, right, it's called. It's amazing. I want it, but I don't want it, right? You like the constraints.
Man, I'm suspicious of more, you know?
You really need all this stuff. It might slow me down, actually.
Because you can defend more, right? You can defend, yeah, I'm a developer. I make money. I need to get more screens, right? I need to be more efficient. And then you read stuff about like mythical man month where like hiring more people slows down a software project that's famous. I think you can use that metaphor maybe for, you know, tools as well.
And I see friends just with gear acquisition syndrome that buying so much stuff. but they're not that productive. They have the best, most beautiful battle stations, desktops, everything. They're not that productive. And it's also like kind of fun. Like it's all from my laptop in a backpack, right? It's kind of nomad, minimalist.
Yes, so I go to sleep, like, 2 a.m. usually, something like that, and before 4 a.m. But my girlfriend would go to sleep midnight, so we did a compromise, like, 2 a.m., you know? So I wake up around 10, 11, no, more like 10. Shower, make coffee. I make coffee, like drip coffee, like the V60, you know, the filter. And I boil water and then I put the coffee in.
And then chill a little bit with my girlfriend and then open laptop, start coding, check what's going on, like bugs or whatever.
So I used to need like really long stretches where I would do like all nighters and stuff to get shit done. But I've gotten trained to like have more interruptions where I can like... Because you have to. This is life. There's a lot of distractions. Your girlfriend asks stuff, people come over, whatever. So I'm very fast now. I can lock in and lock out quite fast.
And I heard people, developers or entrepreneurs with kids have the same thing. Before they're like, ah, I cannot work, but they get used to it. And they get really productive in like short time because they only have like 20 minutes and then shit goes crazy again. So another constraint, right? Yeah, it's funny. So I think that works for me. Yeah.
And then, you know, cook food and stuff, like have lunch, steak and chicken. You eat a bunch of times a day. So you say coffee.
What are you doing? Yeah, so a few hours later, cook foods. We get like locally stores like meat and stuff and vegetables and cook that. And then second coffee and then go some more. Maybe go outside for lunch. Like you can mix fun stuff, you know?
You mean like the special days where like girlfriend leaves to like Paris or something and you're alone for a week at home, which is amazing. You can just code. It's like, and you stay up all night and eat chocolate. Yeah. Eat chocolate.
Now shit goes crazy. Okay.
Now we wake up like 1 p.m. at 2 p.m.
Yeah, because I was coding. I was finding some new AI shit. And I was studying it. And it was amazing. And I cannot sleep because it's too important. We need to stay awake. We need to see all of this. We need to make something now. But that's the times I do make new stuff more. So I think... I have a friend. He actually books a hotel for a week to leave his... And he has a kid too.
And his girlfriend and his kid stay in the house. And he goes to another hotel. Sounds a little suspicious, right? Going to a hotel. But all he does is like writing or coding. He's a writer and he needs like this alone time, this silence. And I think for this flow state, it's true, you know? I'm better maintaining stuff when there's a lot of disruptions than like creating new stuff. I need this.
And it's common. It's flow state. It's this uninterrupted period of time. Yeah. So, yeah, I wake up like 1, 2 p.m., you know, still coffee, shower. We still shower, you know. And then just code like nonstop. Maybe my friend comes over. Just some distraction. Yeah. Andre, he codes too. So, he comes over. We code together. We listen, you know.
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