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0 pointssanitycheck7y ago0 comments

I don't disagree with most of what you say, however: If you have a (code) problem at the end of the day it's often best to just stop - maybe even finish early. When you sit down in the morning more often than not it'll seem much easier to fix, your subconscious will have been working on it overnight.

That's better than sitting there for another hour or two in the evening getting increasingly tired and ineffective, missing dinner, annoying your partner, etc.

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alias_neo7y ago

I see your point, but, here's mine; My wife is more likely to be annoyed if I'm sitting at home absent minded because I'm focused on the problem I couldn't solve today than she would be if I missed dinner or got home an hour or two late.

This is the part about not taking your work home. I'm often pre-occupied with problems I haven't solved, I find for me, taking the time to solve them, or to be sure that I can't solve it now helps with that.

I'm not disagreeing with you, some problems need to be left for another day, and I've said that already.

What I'm trying to say is that I think we're both right in a way, and that finding balance is what we need.

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0 pointssanitycheck7y ago0 comments

That's better than sitting there for another hour or two in the evening getting increasingly tired and ineffective, missing dinner, annoying your partner, etc.

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alias_neo7y ago

I'm not disagreeing with you, some problems need to be left for another day, and I've said that already.

What I'm trying to say is that I think we're both right in a way, and that finding balance is what we need.

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