sustainable working or how to cut stress from your life
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Sustainable workingHow to work in stressful environment and do
less mess
betterstack.org Tim Zadorozhniy
Who am I? - Artem
- Full-stack dev at EyeEm
- Software guy, do awesome things
- Helping people to be better
- CTO at Bazilinga.com
- Author of betterstack.org
What’s this talk about?
Daily
Routine
Work
WorkIn non-ideal world
Sometimes this world is just on fire!
What it’s all about?
- Getting Things Done
- NOT sacrificing quality
- WHY question
- NO answer
- Personal time
- Personal space
- Understanding others (Empathy)
- Shit tolerance
- Quit if needed
What it’s all about?
In the end all what you are doing for is:
- Getting Things Done
- Keeping quality High
- Why?
Getting Things Done
You are payed for results and value you can deliver.
- Be productive
- Be predictable
- Be organized
Getting Things Done
You are payed for results and value you can deliver.
- Be productive
- Be predictable
- Be organized
The trick is to minimize stressand stay healthy!
Understand Why!
Understand Why!
Why answers if you should do it at all!
- What comes after Why
- How comes after What
- Big picture
Prioritize!
Prioritize!
URGENT’s may have several meanings
- Be clear about priority
- Clarify expectations
- Avoid multitasking hell
Prioritize!- Prio list of task, less
mess
- Less firefighting
- Easier to get into ZEN (deep working)
Prioritize!
How to get there?Talking to people usually helps, but sometimes
Say NO!
No answer
Time’s limited! Don’t waste it for nothing.
- Explain why NO.
- Cut unrelated/unimportant stuff
- Use it more often
No answer
Results may be surprising!
- Personal time
- Personal space
- Clear mind/Less stress
- Higher quality
Shit tolerance
Define a contract with yourself, if you want to carry it?
- Stick to the contract
- Make your goals clear
- Analyze result
Understand people
Empathy
Know your context, know your people
- Context may influence actions
- People may be different
- Predictability
Simple talking to peers helped to build sane environment (avoid, solve problems, conflicts)!
Sometimes you should quit
Sometimes quit
You can change your environment. Or not.
- People change if they want
- Sometimes they don’t want
- Sometimes you don’t feet
Thanks!
Q&A?