#1 culture hack that is amiss in today’s startups and developers
There have been times when you are stuck with Programmer’s block.
That phase when you can still write a programming statement, but you don’t know what to create out of it. You are waiting for someone to dictate the short term milestone for you
(And you secretly wish they don’t 😏)
You are too bored, because the cognitive reward of creating something out of nothing is amiss here. You aren’t fetching / updating data or creating that awesome animation. Instead, you are doing trivial tasks: Caching, tiny UI makeovers here and there, some geeky settings to empower the smartest user.
Seems great, but those will mostly not be the things your boss / user applauds you for.
Because importance of million small things is only realized when they are amiss.
Just like working time leisures — a culture hack that today’s programmers rarely know, and companies have completely forgotten about.
What are working time leisures for software developers?
Working time leisures are things you do while you at your desk — but not coding. Or even if you code, that code isn’t aimed at your immediate…
