Comments on: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3: Dual Timeboxing

By: My (Current) Timeboxing Tools: Hardware Timers | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:33:15 +0000

[…] fast, especially if you’re doing “microtimeboxing” with 60~90 second blocks (see dual timeboxing, decremental timeboxing for details). So, for now, hardware is the way to go. Besides, not all my […]

By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 5: Incremental Timeboxing and Mixed Timeboxing | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:16:23 +0000

[…] timeboxing mash-up would be to use dual (two-timer) timeboxing that decrements. Basically you have the big timer doing decremental timeboxing, and the small timer […]

By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 4: Decremental Timeboxing | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:36:20 +0000

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By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:24:24 +0000

Will:

sounds a lot like the Tabata protocol….short intense bursts of exercise, rewarded by interval rest…..all wrapped up in a much bigger timer for the workout. (dual time-boxed)

You can Tabata anything by playing with the times….and from personal experience, it works great for the most painful, procrastination prone tasks out there. The shorter and more intense, the better: the focus becomes more about the pain/reward cycle than just about how painful a task is.

Link explaining. Has some Japanese relevancy to boot (Dr. Izumi Tabata):
ezinearticles.com/?Tabata-Anything—Four-Minutes-of-Pain-to-Gain&id=348486

By: Leonardo Boiko

Leonardo Boiko — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:09:59 +0000

Lex: totally gonna try that. Thanks for the idea.

By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3.5: Timeboxing Turns Work Into Play | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:01:06 +0000

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By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 2: Nested Timeboxing | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:51:14 +0000

[…] a large timebox surrounds a bunch of smaller timeboxes. We’ll discuss the details in the next post. Share and […]

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:39:51 +0000

Just a though, if you are listening to music (which you should be), setting the timer to the end of the current song could be a fun way to timebox!

By: Serhei

Serhei — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:27:14 +0000

I enjoy combining dual and decremental timeboxing. Throw a bunch of 5-to-15 minute timeboxes into a bag, pull one out of the bag and do it, bite off a minute or two and throw it back in. Pick a different one and repeat for awesomeness.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:15:55 +0000

Khatz for President. It’s a really cool idea, oh hell yeah

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:13:45 +0000

I’ve tried pomodoro, I think for personal stuff is too complex, maybe for work purpose it’s ok.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:08:21 +0000

I thought it helpful to use it a double super cool timer www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=17248

By: Will

Will — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:27:11 +0000

khatz,

I do something very similar to this and I completely agree that sometimes shorter, more concentrated spurts of work will help you get more done. But I just can’t help feel you are leaving out some very important insights on taking breaks. Being the recovering workaholic that I am, I realize that taking some quality rest or even a quick two minute break to just meditate and relax will make you a much more productive worker (Niel Fiore, www.pomodorotechnique.com/ anyone?).

IMO It’s just so much more inspiring when you have some FUN to look forward to between your bouts of productivity. This fun will be in a some L2 or L3 that you are currently taking steps to OWN, of course.

-Will