About personal programming experience in transport, McDonald's and other crowded and noisy places.

Introduction

I am a Ruby on Rails developer in one fairly large and growing company. I love my job, but also in my free time I write various projects for the soul and sometimes for money. During working hours, writing the mentioned conscience makes it difficult, and you always want to save personal time and spend it on some pleasant idleness.

Due to the specifics of the type of activity, I need the following props (I think this is a gentleman's set of many of us): a laptop with a charged battery, a place to sit and the Internet (not always)


On the way to work and back in transport, I began to think that it would be nice to occupy this segment of the day with something useful and fruitful. And with the move to another apartment it turned out that I now have to go to work by bus from the final to the final stop (or from the initial to the initial, I don’t know how to do that).
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How do i do it

Going into the bus, I choose a more comfortable place, where the cover of a laptop lying on my lap does not rest against the back of the next seat, I run all the necessary software, mute the screen brightness to save battery, and fall into a trance.

Seriously. I can reach this level of concentration only deep in the night when everything that can sleep is asleep. Knowing that I have 20-40 minutes of travel time, decisions have to be made very quickly, choosing the most optimal ways to solve problems. It turned out that I manage to do something that I would spend at home the whole evening.

An even greater discovery for me was the complete distraction from extraneous noise. But everything is simple - in such crowded places such an abundance of sounds as if tends to white noise , which seems to be silence, just the opposite.

It happened that when I was waiting for some meeting I sat in McDonalds (or another, more decent institution), I experienced a similar experience. And I tell you, it is beautiful!

Conclusion

I think I have to mention many times that all the same this does not work for everyone, not everyone is suitable, not everyone likes. For me, this was a kind of revelation:
1. I can do my job even in completely inconvenient conditions, and I do not feel inconveniences.
2. In such circumstances, I work more productively than in comfortable conditions.
3. I find ways to accomplish many tasks faster and more efficiently.
4. PROFIT !!!

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