3-hour rule: How much to work per day

Bennett Garner
Developer Purpose
Published in
4 min readAug 12, 2022

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Blurry eyes, keyboard banging, & one global rule of productivity.

I’ve been there. Working far too long on a project. I start to mistype. I lose track of details. Mistakes keep coming and quality goes way down.

Do anything creative for a few hours, and it’s exhausting.

There seems to be a limit on how much consistent effort and attention our brains…

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