thunderbird, to productivity
@thunderbird@mastodon.online avatar

I had to pause my music to write this post, because anything with lyrics pulls me into the song and out of what I'm working on!

And that's something I've wanted to ask you: when you're trying to focus on work, do you put on music WITH lyrics or WITHOUT lyrics?

BONUS: Post your favorite "focus" tracks or albums here and tag us. We're making playlists 🎧

~Jason

A classic scene from the film Pulp Fiction, with Jules saying "Oh I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?"

chpietsch, (edited ) to fahrrad German

WTF WTB? Warum verbauen deutsche Fahrradhersteller diese Reifen in ansonsten alltagstauglichen Gravelbikes, obwohl sie keinerlei Pannenschutz haben?

Meine erste Ausfahrt mit dem neuen Gravelrad sollte nur durch halb Bielefeld gehen, endete aber mit einem Platten im Hinterrad, der fast zu einem Sturz in der letzten Kurve geführt hätte.

Einen durch Glassplitter verursachten Platten hatte ich in den letzten 20 Jahren nicht mehr, und ich fahre fast jeden Tag. Und das nicht immer mit Marathon-Reifen. Selbst Rennradreifen wie die GP4 haben einen besseren Pannenschutz als die WTB .

Laut Hersteller werden die WTB verbaut, weil die cool kids in den USA auch damit fahren. Wenn ich aber ein Gravelrad mit kompletter Straßenausrüstung kaufe, erwarte ich, dass ihm die Glassplitter nichts ausmachen, die mir auf dem Weg zur Arbeit immer wieder unterkommen. Dass es Dornen und Metall widersteht, erwarte ich gar nicht.

@fahrrad

heydon, to accessibility
@heydon@front-end.social avatar

New WCAG just dropped!

Particularly interested in the "focus appearance" SC that mandates a 2px+ focus outline/style. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#focus-appearance #a11y

arkadiusz, to art

Ok there are tulips which look like a painting (thanks to Helios lens!), in the foreground are narcissi. Sharp tulips are still to come! 🌷💐🎨

Gear:
• Sony α5000
• Helios 44-2 58mm f/2.0 (KMZ 1974)
• K&F M42-Sony E Adapter

arkadiusz, (edited ) to art
fell, to ADHD
@fell@ma.fellr.net avatar

#Today, I'm doing a little #experiment at #work.

I have disabled all my #browsers using the #Windows #registry to stop myself from getting side-tracked all the time.

So far, it's been going surprisingly well! It's a bit annoying because I also can't look up #programming questions anymore, but it kinda forces me to think myself and actually read the #code on my machine.

(I'm typing this post on my phone)
#ADD #ADHD #focus

arkadiusz, (edited ) to art

Spring has begun and magnolias have bloomed beautifully. I just mounted an old $20 Soviet lens to my Sony camera and took some photos. Check out the spring dreamy look! 🌸 Thank you for being there!

Gear:
• Sony α6400
• Jupiter-8 50 mm f/2 (KMZ, 1967)
• L39 to Sony E-Mount Adapter

waxbanks, to random
@waxbanks@heads.social avatar

another challenging morning #meditation, this time up on my workplace roofdeck:

caffeinated, head full of attractive #fantasy, pulled repeatedly out of restful #focus.

after ~10min some words entered my noisy head: ‘i can’t manage my concentration—i can—i am.

process not result.

then relaxed into the difficulty; the rest of that time felt like surfing, or floating down a crowded sidewalk: effortful, mental muscles working, grateful acceptance of chaotic oscillation.

alive again!

arkadiusz, to art
LorenzMeyer, to random German
@LorenzMeyer@mastodon.social avatar

"Jan Böhmermann ist der beste Wahlhelfer der AfD"???

Sorry, aber lest Ihr eigentlich, was Ihr da vor Euch hin brabbelt, lieber #Focus? Und wenn wir schon dabei sind: Sorgt mal für Durchzug, Ihr vertragt die Hitze nicht.

evgenylepekhin, to business

1/7 For the past three years I’ve worked with various SaaS teams. They were from different fields, but all of them had one common problem—bad focus.

The lack of focus erodes ability to flex and accomplish your initial goals. In 99% of the cases the focus shifts to money, and here’s why.

#management #leadership #focus #saas #business #design #writing #write #writer

arkadiusz, to art
mikey, to apple
@mikey@neovibe.app avatar

Focus Mode on Apple devices are so underrated. Literally in my top 5 favorite features.

#apple #ios #focus

rolle, to productivity
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

I absolutely love Sunsama and how it takes care of your valuable time. There are no priority labels other than time.

From time blocking apps I have used first Sunsama, then Akiflow, then TickTick. All of them have pros and cons, but now that I have returned to Sunsama after one year I've seen it's improved since I last tried it.

I forgot how good it feels to actually FOCUS and see your productivity increase over time.

Screenshot intentionally obfuscated with Datamask.

tornooc, to random French
@tornooc@masto.bike avatar

Premier versement d'une demi-heure de 🚲 (environ 1000 📷) sur l'instance @panoramax d' @openstreetmap , je suis impressionné par le floutage automatique des plaques et des visages 👏.

Exemple ici : https://panoramax.openstreetmap.fr/#focus=pic&map=15.6/45.732815/4.873943&pic=e2604606-958b-4796-a6e7-86b344644eb7&speed=250&xyz=352.00/0.00/30

mwop, to ADHD
@mwop@phpc.social avatar

Day 7 of my 2023 Advent blogging: how I started using FocusMe to combat my doomscrolling and make more healthy choices in the mornings:

https://mwop.net/blog/2023-12-06-advent-focusme.html

#focus #adhd #audhd

ctietze, (edited ) to NixOS
@ctietze@mastodon.social avatar

On Tools and the Aesthetics of Work https://calnewport.com/on-tools-and-the-aesthetics-of-work/

The best thing is the "Mythic I" is basically booting into #NixOS just to launch #Emacs so you can write. Period.

Lubricated thocky keyboard, wooden computer frame. Amazing.

The real #focus mode

maxleibman, to motivation
@maxleibman@mastodon.social avatar

It’s my last workday this week, almost nobody is in the office, I have only two major tasks to complete today . . . and I don’t want to do either of them.

It feels like the ideal day for a burst of inspired productivity, but I just want to check out. Sigh.

elduvelle, to productivity
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social avatar

My 3 #Resolutions for the new year?
[1] Close my Twitter account
[2] Start a #BulletJournal to see if it increases my #Focus (and #Productivity)
[3] Get my #Hexamaze study published!

What about you all?
#NewYear2024

fractalkitty, to genart
@fractalkitty@mathstodon.xyz avatar

For people that are tired of rational focus timers or 25 minute pomodoro - I made this:

A rough prototype of a focus timer base on Tau minutes.

The code is completely stream of conscious mess for now, but it works (slow on some machines).

the alarm is tau - notes mapped to the digits of tau.

to cheat your alarm, press c or click x (to go straight to the music)

live: https://codepen.io/fractalkitty/live/ZEPwepe

Code: https://codepen.io/fractalkitty/pen/ZEPwepe?editors=0010

#mathart #wccChallenge #Tau #notPi #creativeCoding #pomodoro #timer #focus

douginamug, to firefox
@douginamug@mastodon.xyz avatar

Sometimes I need to watch a video on youtube.

Even if I quickly go fullscreen, there's enough time to be enticed by the algorithmically-addictive video on the side menu.

What browser magic can I most simply implement to hide the side menu?

_nb, to random
@_nb@mamot.fr avatar

Allez venez on va faire un tour en bateau dans le tunnel du canal St-Martin, entre le port de l’Arsenal et l’écluse du temple.

https://panoramax.ign.fr/#focus=pic&map=15.4/48.854428/2.369749&pic=5dff131e-6508-494b-88fd-e24fa9dfa808&speed=250&xyz=1.62/-32.03/30

poke @panoramax

ottaross, to random
@ottaross@mastodon.social avatar

Today I finally got back to where I was on a project on Dec 22.

Sure I got a bunch of other stuff done in the interim, and fought a few fires, but it's also a cautionary tale of how a break in the flow of a project (like holidays) can knock back your continuity and make you climb that hill all over again. I'm glad I kept copious notes in those last days of December.

#workFlow #focus

boilingsteam, to linux
@boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud avatar
constantorbit, to workersrights
@constantorbit@hachyderm.io avatar

hitting my common early-/mid-afternoon challenge with staying focused on work.

(as evidenced by this post on mastodon 😂 )

#work #focus

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