I'm an efficiency freak and love it when things get done quickly and my time isn't wasted. I honestly think one of the main reasons why I hated working in corporate jobs was because things weren't efficient. I'd get my job done, but would still have to sit around for 'face time' and be bored out of my mind. Now that we've broken away from the corporate lifestyle, I'm constantly finding ways to be even more productive. Reading Hacker News a few times a day definitely doesn't help my productivity, but I always find great articles like "The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity".
I won't recite it here, but if you want to become more productive, definitely read his blog post. The one tip I like the best is how to use your procrastination to become more productive. Procrastination usually happens when you don't really like doing a certain task (for me, it's writing test scripts). Instead of putting off the task and searching online for some sort of distraction, keep a list of other tasks that need to be done that day as well. When you feel like procrastinating, do those other tasks instead. You'll end up feeling very productive, even though you procrastinated! There's also another tip on the guide that I really should be doing. It's eating breakfast. Daishin and I try to usually meet up between 7-8, and we usually starve ourselves until lunchtime. Like, literally starve. We must complain that we're hungry about 10 times each in the morning. Putting fuel in our bodies in the morning might actually make us more productive as well!
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