Tell HN: overcomming programmer's block
- be sure to accept first that you are blocked and your production is going to be worse than usual for a while
- try to understand why you are having a block... are you bored of routine work? your brain is tired of challenging work? are you just stressed? different problems have different solutions
- if you are bored of routine work: remember this, you are not going to be productive anyway, so anything is worth trying; then try this: forget your todo list, just pick something that you like doing that is somewhat related to your work and do it... work in a relaxed way, do pauses if needed, but do something, and keep it related to your work...
- if you are blocked because you are tired of challenging work, keep everything simple.. do simple tasks, and if you have to do complex stuff, divide them in a lot of very small tasks, so that each of them require very little effort to do ... then start doing them
- if you are stressed, sometimes doing very challenging work is a distraction, and a solution... works for me
- every day you should feel that you are doing good work, even if slowly... this sensation is what's going to end the programmer's block