
What to Do While Waiting for AI Code Assistants
Those 30-second to 5-minute waits while Claude or Copilot thinks aren't wasted time. Learn research-backed techniques to use these micro-breaks productively without destroying your flow state.

Those 30-second to 5-minute waits while Claude or Copilot thinks aren't wasted time. Learn research-backed techniques to use these micro-breaks productively without destroying your flow state.

A practical guide to reaching flow while coding, protecting deep work blocks, and recovering quickly after interruptions.

Research shows AI coding tools can slow experienced developers by 19%. Learn science-backed strategies to use Copilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT without destroying your deep work.

Most side projects never reach launch. Learn the psychology behind why developers abandon projects and build a practical system to ship.

Meetings can swallow a big chunk of a developer's week. Here's how to reclaim that time – with research-backed strategies for meeting hygiene, async alternatives, and calendar defense.

Synchronous communication is the default, but it doesn't have to be. Learn how async-first workflows protect deep work time, support global collaboration, and create more sustainable remote development careers.

Your workspace shapes your work. This evidence-based guide covers everything from desk ergonomics to lighting science, helping you create a home office that supports sustained focus and deep work.

Focus is an environmental design problem. This evidence-based guide combines cognitive neuroscience, environmental psychology, and behavioral design to help you build a workspace that supports deep work.

Reframe Super Productivity as a finitude-first system inspired by Four Thousand Weeks – use constraint, timeboxing, and reflective logging to pick what you'll happily neglect.

Context switching can cost you 40% of your productive time. Learn three research-backed strategies to batch work by cognitive mode, protect your schedule, and engineer an environment that minimizes interruptions.

Most to-do apps flood developers with notifications and kill deep work. Learn the science behind developer productivity and discover tools designed to protect your focus, not destroy it.

Learn the science and systems behind deep work – how to train focus, reduce distractions, and create meaningful, high-impact output in the modern attention economy.