If anybody is dealing with procrastination watch George Hotz live streaming 10h straight working on this library [1][2]. Does he take some supplements to do this? There is even 19.5h stream [3].
Actually I have local obs setup to record myself, just instead of streaming I do recordings for my own inspection. Important part is to do the inspection after. It works wonders.
It isn't 19.5 hour stream, I went and randomly clicked on couple of timestamps and stumbled upon[1]. So it's two almost-10-hour-long streams put together because they are thematically similar.
>Does he take some supplements to do this? There is even 19.5h stream [3]
It's probably the fact he has an audience. I can't speak for him, but that'd sure as hell light a fire under my ass—or at least significantly reduce procrastination.
Also, I find in periods where I've worked ~17 hours straight that the tiredness calms by brain to the point I'm normal and makes focus easy, albeit difficult in a different way due to fatigue. There's a weird drone zone there that's nice. Not something to make a habit of, though.
If you enjoy what you are doing it's pretty easy to work on something that long, I've had gaming sessions last as long back in the day with friends and some of those games are as demanding in terms of focus as programming.
External motivation of having an audience would also help
I think it's combination of: 1) he's really passionate about what he's doing 2) he sees the problem as real challenge 3) he doesn't have corporate structure on his back giving him deadlines and pressure
Is 10 hours really _that_ strange? You are (hopefully) focusing 8 hours "straight" during work _every day_.
If you watch Hotz's streams he takes small breaks to talk with chat and to meme around (just like everyone else during their work days) and he eats lunch and whatever (again just like everyone else).
What I'm trying to say is that Hotz's isn't a superman on Adderall he is just working on stuff he is excited about.
> You are (hopefully) focusing 8 hours "straight" during work _every day_.
I refuse to believe that 8 hours straight focus every day is common.
I have about 4 - 6 hours of really focused, deep work focus available. 6 hours if I am really interested in the project and 4 hours for normal days. The rest is doing low focus work like writing mail, planning ahead, attending workshops, reading up on updates for relevant libraries, reading documentation etc.
When I was around 15 I used to do 10 hours of x86 assembly programming, and then several hours every day after school for a month or so in a row. Parents would have to force me from the computer.
I attribute it to a younger brain, NO internet and NO fun distractions. At 42 I just don't see how I did it, and I know I could never be that focused. Just sitting still for 4 hours make me feel quasy now, and I need to use my physical body in some way.
Yea I miss youth. I'm in my 30s and all nighters are not the same anymore :(. When I was young I'd do 2-3 in a week and with a four hour nap I would recover.
Now after those I lay down and I can't get up for a couple hours with all this aching in my limbs lol.
I'd say 99.9% of the western worlds workforce doesn't focus for 8 hours straight in the work day - its not really eve possible to in a great deal of jobs where there's context switching (meetings etc)
The bigger problem is recording taking too much cpu. That's why I don't record full work day, just chunks, whenever I feel I procrastinate. Youtube is an option here, I've tested it however cpu problem doesn't go away.
My plan is to make this obs-ndi plugin work on ubuntu, so I will be able to record on ubuntu to take the load off of mac which is my primary laptop.
PS. I forgot to read obs-ndi instructions properly, it works ok so now I can delegate regording to second laptop
It wouldn't be huge, I once recorded a week of me using my pc(so around 80 hours in total), and it was sub-100 gigs. It was 1080p with decent quality, don't remember FPS though.
I just quickly loop through them and categorieze chunks of time, just to see how I work. I have iphone as input, put on the table on the right which also captures my posture - I slouch almost all the time.
There is a problem however - I work on mac m1 and obs recordings take full 4 out of 8 cores so actually I am recording only when I notice I am starting to procrastinate. All recordings I remove afterwords to save up space. Obs is turned on all the time though.
I wanted to use obs-ndi to combine output from another laptop, but I have some issues with it so I just record mac atm. I also have powerfull desktop on the side and can ssh between all those by name, but desktop is noisy so it's off most of the time. Also there is raspberry pi with simple script with which I can turn on desktop remotely via Wait On Lan udp packet, dns handled via https://www.noip.com with which my router has an integration, but I actually never used it. I've done this setup to justify purchasing this powerful desktop in the first place :) humble brag, I know.
Actually I have local obs setup to record myself, just instead of streaming I do recordings for my own inspection. Important part is to do the inspection after. It works wonders.
[1] https://youtu.be/GXy5eVwnL_Q
[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb2KwcnDKrk
[3] no joke, 19.5h stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc0jGZYFQLQ