Re: Smart Pill for Boosting Electronics Design Performance

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:45:35 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
<dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

D from BC wrote:
There is no smart pill...if so ...
I'll pop one to figure out if I should take more. :)
.....
There's some very intelligent people on here and I wonder if it's
partly due to lifestyle...

Are electronic designers getting exercise and eating "mentally"
healthy foods to stay mentally sharp?

Also....
I did some reading long ago on attention span... IIRC it matches the
duration of TV shows..about 45 minutes.
I sometimes hack on the same circuit for hours.. But I have to wonder
about my mental performance during those hours...
Maybe it was best during the first 45minutes?

How do you stay sharp?
D from BC

I once estimated that on a design I spend most of my time staring out of
the window, punctuated by intense bursts of work.

I design, and even more debug, in my sleep. I'll wake up at 2 am,
recall that I've made some subtle mistake in an analog design or a
piece of code, scribble it down, and go back to sleep.

Why sweat it, when you can push it into the background processor,
where work gets done without conscious effort.

John

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