5 tips to be a more productive software engineer

Here's my top five ways to be more productive as a software engineer. There's no technical magic here, these are behaviors that will help you when you're being distracted or having trouble starting on something that HAS to get done.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Measuring Productivity
02:16 Add investigation notes to Specs and Source
03:33 Track your time
06:56 Apps to track time
07:19 Reduce Context Switches
08:39 Silence notifications, with a twist
10:21 Fix Environmental Distractions
12:21 "Just Sit"
13:26 Recap
14:46 Wrap-up

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