Ask HN: You have one hour left to work, how do you decide what to work on?

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This interests me specifically for developers/programmers. If you realize you have one hour left in the day to work (before heading home or going to sleep), how do you decide what to work on? and how much do you think you can get done?

(assuming you're not in the middle of something at the moment)

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Not a pure dev (I'm a founder so get spread over lots of tasks), but I generally use my last hour of work for planning and setting up for the next block of work. Purely from a mental health perspective, I find it much easier to relax once my task list is prioritized, tabs are closed and my inbox is reduced.

just out of curiosity - founder of what?

www.nudjed.com we're a health/gov-tech company. Predominantly working with the NHS in the UK. Around for 5 years, raised £700k. Not your typical SaaS business, more hybrid consulting, due to the clients, we work with.

on this situation right now: spend time on toilet, coffee or HN, try to keep my head down until clocking out.

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