Day 454: the code zone

productivity

things that happen when i enter the code zone:

  • i stop checking my messages and social media for days at a time

    • if you’ve messaged me recently and i haven’t gotten back to you, this is why

  • i fall asleep working through some feature in my head and wake up 5 hours later with my brain going right back to working through them

    • usually i’m energized and excited to get back to coding but i’m hitting the point where the consistent sleep deprivation is catching up to me

  • all my hobbies disappear

    • no guitar, drawing, reading happens because my mind is all-consumed
    • i’m spending minimal effort writing in my journal as well as you can tell

basically, i become a hyper focused zombie with no regard for anything else but cranking out the latest feature

if this was happening with anything else besides coding (which is “productive” and therefore ok by society’s standards), i think my housemates would’ve staged an intervention because it’s indistinguishable from a major addiction

this is what i mean when i tell people that i stay away from video games because i have an addictive personality

the last time i felt this sucked into coding was when i first started working on browserflow in may/june of last year and it’s fitting because i want to launch this month

final sprint in the code zone let’s gooooo