Working again

I'm getting to closer to my writer's leave. I've been working on my book project since Christmas but on Monday I will start at a new customer assignment. The new assignment will use Qtopia and embedded Linux so I'm really looking forward to it.

During my leave I've learned a few things:

1. You cannot, efficiently, try to churn out a large amount of text on one subject every day for more than around two weeks.
2. Varying languages is hard. Writing for weeks in English and then having to write for three days in Swedish was hard - but it was even harder to get back up to speed in English. (Notice that I'm a native Swedish speaker).
3. Developing examples on one subject and varying by writing the text about other examples developed earlier helps providing variation, thus increasing productivity.
4. Spending eight hours on something that you used to do for four hours does not double productivitiy. That requires something like ten to twelve hours.
5. Working for more than ten hours a day on a single task for a longer period of time is pointless.

This might sound very negative, but I think that this time has been a great experience.