Ten-hour coding marathons produce code you'll throw away
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later you find out that that long stretch of time, that 10 hours you spent on a single day coding, that some of that code, just because of like mental fatigue that you were not aware of, you
Episode 235: Rodecaster Disaster (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:28:58 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Three- or four-hour blocks are fun and productive. But when Dave codes for ten hours straight with only brief breaks, he later finds that mental fatigue he didn't notice made some of that code worthless. It has to be tossed and redone, and he thinks that's true for more people than just him.
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Episode 235: Rodecaster Disaster (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:29:29 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
That's fun. And you can get a lot accomplished, but when you start stretching it out for many, many, many hours without, without kind of like without stopping or only brief breaks
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