7 Manage your time
Many technology professionals struggle with time management. Sometimes, our time is taken from us in the form of meetings and other obligations. But most of us can also do a better job of managing the time that is left to us, and learning to manage our time is a mission-critical skill for a successful career.
7.1 Discipline, procrastination, and laziness
I first want to briefly make some distinctions between procrastination and a behavior that it is often confused with: laziness. In my view, procrastination is the spiritual opposite of discipline. So let’s start with my simple definition of discipline.
Discipline Remembering why you started doing something in the first place.
When I talk to people about why they delay doing ...
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