>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:
- You cannot, efficiently, try to churn out a large amount of text on one subject every day for more than around two weeks.
- 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).
- Developing examples on one subject and varying by writing the text about other examples developed earlier helps providing variation, thus increasing productivity.
- 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.
- 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.