What makes you close your laptop?
Last night I was still working at 1AM. Everything I actually meant to ship was done by six. Then I kept going and generated a few sets of slides for my next PH launch.
Two years ago, I would have ended by eight. Not because I had more discipline - because I would have needed a designer, needed to wait on my devs. The day ended when I ran out of things I was capable of doing alone.
That limit is gone. I can do the design, the copy and the code now. Badly, but fast enough to matter. There’s no boss, no shift, no colleague turning off the lights. The work is never completely finished.
So I’m curious what’s left for you guys here. Not how you switch off, what’s the actual signal that the day is over? A person, a time, hunger, the dog, someone leaving the room? Or does it only end when something breaks?
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Setting a fixed cutoff on purpose is the better answer than waiting for something to break and force it. Losing the old stopping point, waiting on a designer or dev to catch up, means nothing external does that job for you anymore. If the list running low doesn't do it and the feeling of done never quite arrives, the only reliable signal left is a boundary picked in advance. Something breaking works too, but that's an expensive way to find your limit.
Oskar
@alex_gidirim So you set a timer or finish at a certain hour, like office hours? do you cut off at exactly that time or how do you keep yourself from delaying the cutoff?