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The problem is that it is very hard to get something big from little splotches of time, or at least I find it hard, so I focus on little wins.

My company informally allows for spending time like this, but if it works out to an hour or two a day in between meetings and Slack requests, I can't really do much with that.




I write very little shippable code in first day of a 3 day task. Also my itch for unfinished work is very unhealthy. Does 20% favour guys who compartmentalize unfinished business to a fixed day every week and ramp up quickly?


Does the 20% need to be distributed evenly, time-wise?

Or could you combine it into a 5-10 week clump between projects?


Mine is one day every other week




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