The stereotype of programming is that it involves sitting in a chair without moving, staring at a screen for hours or days while thinking furiously about a single problem. Eventually, that problem is defeated. Move to the next, goto 10.

There's a fair amount of truth in that.

Now that I'm doing a startup, however, I can't afford that. I need to be able to program on multiple tasks at a time and keep track of numerous other things all at once. This is hard, because I do not multi-task well by nature. I'm looking for books and sites on time management techniques, but I thought I would ask my fellow Monks if they had specific suggestions on how to keep multiple balls in the air simultaneously without dropping things.

Any thoughts?

In reply to Time management, multitasking, and programming, oh my! by Whitehawke

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