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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Time Block Planning

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about time block planning — what it is and how it can help you increase your productivity! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 01:50 - What is time block planning 03:12 - How TBP has helped Scott stay focused 04:46 - How it helps family life 05:57 - How to plan your week 11:00 - How to deal with setbacks Links Cal Newport Todoist Deep Work Deep Questions Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday,

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

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Get ready to stuff your face

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with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

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get workflows,

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break dancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax in this Monday hasty treat.

0:30.0

We're going to be talking all about time block planning what it is, how it can help you, and how it's

0:35.0

helped, well at least myself, and I don't know if Wes has been doing it, but we're going to be talking

0:39.6

all about the opportunities there that you can get some sweet productivity gains while

0:44.4

keeping yourself sane. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a full-stacked developer from

0:48.4

Denver, Colorado, and with me as always is the West Boss. Hey everybody, I'm excited to hear about this. I don't think I've done

0:54.8

time block planning before but when you kind of mention what it was I said yes I would like to

0:59.2

learn about that. Yeah it's talked a lot about in Kel Newport's books. He's the big, big proponent of it.

1:06.4

So this episode is sponsored by Century and Century allows you to see your errors in blocks.

1:14.3

Though you can throw your errors onto your time block planning schedule

1:18.4

and try to approach them in a more structured way.

1:21.5

Now the cool thing about this is that you could just

1:23.7

click a button directly from that issue

1:25.1

and have it scoot on over to your GitHub issue,

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