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  1. Maker vs manager schedules - 2020 April 27

    Due to world events lately I've been able to spend a lot more time on the maker schedule as compared to the manager schedule. This has been amazingly good for my ability to do creative work because I work on especially hard problems that take a lot of uninterrupted time to be able to effectively work on.


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  2. Software workloads in the COVID19 world - 2020 April 05

    I thought the coronavirus lockdown would give me substantially more time to write, I was wrong, like other high end software practitioners demand didn't drop anywhere near as much as I'd expected it to.


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  3. Why I now hesitate to use TeX - 2019 September 30

    I used to use LaTeX far more than I do now despite my continuing work on various typesetting projects (such as various automated report generation projects). I'm still using LaTeX but less than I used to, here's my thoughts on why.


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  4. Which techniques help us be more productive? - 2016 September 24

    Which techniques help us be more productive? How do we choose what to learn?


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