Comment by medler

The book The Effective Executive recommends keeping detailed logs of your activity for two weeks so you can better understand where your time goes. I did that and found that keeping those logs made me far more focused and productive. Knowing I would have to write down “spent 6 minutes looking for the perfect song to listen to” or “argued with people online about politics for 14 minutes” kept me on task like nothing else. It’s unsustainable but it was a nice short-term productivity boost.