Ask HN: What's the daily schedule of a Hacker (you)?

3 points by channikhabra 12 years ago | 1 comment

Hello to fellow hackers,

I am recently hatched out of my geek shell and have started doing real work (that brings me money). I am doing this for a month now (a long time if you work (sit in front of computer) for 12-16 hours a day).

I would love to know how the battle-tested hackers manage their day.

I mean at what hours you work?

What after that?

What time you give to read books?

When do you learn new things?

How do you manage side projects?

If you are a freelancer, you'd know of the vacuum b/w two projects. How do you tackle that?

My experience: Earlier I used to read books all the time, start doing things with new/old different technologies, get bored and leave them half-way, jumped to next. Now I got a mentor who gives me work to do. I love my work and spend almost all my time on it. Yes, I did have a kind of burnout. It lasted for a small time (a week or two), but now I don't do my "work" project 16 hours a day, just 10-12 hours. But I am struggling to get time for reading books and learning new things. I am doing javascript primarily, I want to continue my python projects along with it, but I am unable to manage it. So I am asking here how other's do it. Don't be mean okay?

vsergiu 12 years ago |

My morning ritual is getting up at 6 am and do 30 min of jogging, after that I schedule 30 min of learning which includes reading a book, reading a tutorial or just watching some speakers on Youtube. After that I do 10 min of planning and I start work. I use the Pomodoro technique. I do not work more than 8 hours/day and you shouldn't too. Try to allocate time to learn and improve yourself every day. Hope that helps.