Ha, yes I came to this thread expecting to be the first to recommend Finite & Infinite Games. Another one that might be of interest to the OP is Mindset by Carol Dweck.
I tracked my productivity pretty rigorously in college for about a year. My maximum sustainable productivity was somewhere between 6 and 8 pomodoros a day. If a deadline was imminent, I could "crunch" and put in something like 12 a day for a week. Interestingly, I would crash afterwards and can only do about 3 pomodoros-per-day until my brain recovers. The average productivity in the crash + recovery cycle was also 6! So I was just borrowing from future productivity.
One piece of feedback - would be great if there was an "import from Linkedin" feature. It seems like a lot of the information has already been populated, and it's annoying to c/p it over.
It really depends what you mean by "low". It's certainly possible at the hundreds-per-day type volume. The key is to just look for bigger effects. If 200 people show up, 10/100 convert on A, and 25/100 convert on B then B wins (p < .01)
As your traffic scales, you can look for smaller and smaller effects. But the whole idea of testing variants can be applied pretty damn early.
I have experience going through the HD funnel and I only have good things to say. The team is professional, know what they are talking about and can connect you with great companies.
For me, the most valuable part was the interview feedback. Since they want you to succeed, they offer interview feedback that is honest and insightful - unlike when you actually apply to jobs.
I've used the Pomodoro technique religiously for the last year. Some interesting conclusions that I drew from my yearly review:
1) I have a maximum sustainable rate of about 8 pomodoros (4 hours) high focus work per day. This can be temporarily overridden, but I work much less the following days.
2) Bimodal days seem to work best for me. One big block in the morning, followed by a long-ish lunch, and then another big block in the afternoon. Similar to PG's essay on maker vs. manager schedule.
3) Having many small unrelated tasks is inversely correlated with number of pomodoros completed. Usually I get the most pomodoros in when I have 2 big tasks for the day.
Author here. JadeNB you've hit the nail on the head! I have found that each language is better suited towards certain problems. This was a key motivation for making a set of problems specific yo Python. Sounds like you have some great ideas. Hit me up (contact is on the page), we should chat!
Thanks for the invitation! I don't have any concrete ideas, just hopes, but, sure, maybe we could chat. Unfortunately, I failed the Turing test: I can't find your contact information on the Python Practice Projects page.
