Christoffer Buvik

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

If you sit in back-to-back meetings at work, read this:

Microsoft's Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings.

• Day 1: 4 back-to-back 30-min meetings.

• Day 2: 4 30-min meetings with 10-minute breaks in between.

Participants wore EEG caps to monitor electrical activity in their brains.

The results were fascinating...

The two key takeaways:

Takeaway 1: Back-to-Back Meetings Promote Stress

Back-to-back meetings created an accumulating buildup of stress in the brain.

Anticipation of transitions caused further spikes.

Short breaks in between meetings allowed the brain to reset and never experience the stress buildup.

Takeaway 2: Breaks Promote Performance

Back-to-back meetings resulted in negative levels of frontal alpha symmetry, a brain state connected to lower levels of engagement.

Short breaks in between meetings resulted in positive levels, meaning participants performed better.

Conclusion: Take More Breaks

The conclusion of the study seems to be that short breaks in between meetings are necessary:

• Eliminate stress buildup
• Improve performance
• Reduce impact of attention residue

I started implementing 25-minute meetings into my schedule (a built in 5-minute break) and immediately noticed a positive impact.

A short walk or some movement in that window provided a clear reset.

25-minute meetings also eliminate the 5 minutes of “how about the weather” low value chit chat most meetings open with.

If you set the tone to dive in and stay focused, there are few things that take more than 25 minutes.

Try it!

If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more in the future.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

I'm shocked how many people still don't know how to prompt ChatGPT properly.

Here are 5 free resources that will make you a prompt engineering expert:

[₿IRB @crypto_birb]

What To Buy Now - #Bitcoin Or #Altcoins? Price Action Level To Level Explained | YouTube - https://t.co/BvwsE3DyaC https://t.co/hPVdBF2b0t

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

The Brazilian Amazon, containing 40% of Earth’s tropical forests, has passed the tipping point. Unless the role of Indigenous peoples and territories in preserving the most sensitive ecosystems on the planet is recognised in the next 24 months, we may anticipate total collapse.🧵

[GitHub @github]

Want to better understand how you're affected by a vulnerability? Today we're shipping a new feature for Dependabot alerts that show if your code is calling known vulnerable functions from your dependencies. ⚡ https://t.co/ZliD2foS5d

[Easlo @heyeaslo]

Twitter is free university.

But 98.8% don’t follow the right people.

A mega-thread of 30+ educators you must follow:

[GitHub @github]

You know what isn’t real good when you push it? Secrets. Now teams with GitHub Advanced Security can enable push protection to stop those credentials, PAT’s and other sneaky secrets from even getting into your git history https://t.co/i37PaJHtve

[React @reactjs]

React 18 is now available on npm!

Here’s an overview of what’s new in React 18, and what it means for the future.

https://t.co/6CAU1Fgznu

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Best practices for writing code-comments by @ellenspertus: https://t.co/wsguBHFO9J. Often, comments should only answer questions code can't (e.g. the "why")

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

LONG Thread :

#Ukraine Crisis !!! How President Putin has come out Victorious without firing a single bullet !!!

Let me give you insight on Ukraine Crisis which is dominating Geo Politics since 3 months, taking the world to brinks of 3rd World War.

Ready?

(1/36)

[GitHub @github]

You don't like merge commits because they are polluting your Git history?

You can now choose to rebase when updating a branch in a pull request 🥳

https://t.co/x0FRrMPM96

[Christoffer Buvik @cckivb]

Introduction to Temporal | Temporal Documentation https://t.co/36uM58iM0G

[GitHub @github]

Want to speed up your site? Build release notes? Test your npm workflows as you go? There’s an automation for that! 🤖 Check out this list from @bdougieYO
https://t.co/dv0hReaIKw

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Native <img> lazy-loading is now enabled in Safari Tech Preview! 😍 Use <img loading=lazy> to natively lazy-load images: https://t.co/EN9NDyxuKM - looking forward to this coming to Safari stable.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Want to build trust in your teams? I'm a fan of the "Braving" model by Brené Brown: don't overcommit, follow through, approach discussions with a humble curiosity mindset and be accountable.

[Devon Govett @devongovett]

📢 Excited to release the React Aria ComboBox! It provides hooks to help you build great autocomplete experiences.

♿️ Accessible
📱 Mobile friendly
🗂 Section support
⏳ Async loading and infinite scrolling
🎨 100% customizable for your design

Blog post: https://t.co/pp3lSQa2oM

[Lighthouse @____lighthouse]

Introducing Lighthouse for user flows: drive your page with a Puppeteer script and have Lighthouse measure and audit performance at every step: https://t.co/R7qmEIFNEc

[Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish]

👇 NEW CSS-IN-JS LIBRARY ALERT!

🧁 vanilla-extract

🔥 Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript
✨ Minimal abstraction over standard CSS
🦄 Works with any front-end framework
🌳 Locally scoped classes + CSS Variables
🎨 High-level theming system

https://t.co/V4P4BYRDrE

[Joe Puzzo @joe_puzzo]

Had a great chat today with @tannerlinsley. Talked more about building performant react libraries. https://t.co/YlxjRdra2Y Came up as one of the great examples. If your interested check it out. Who doesn't want a zero dependency form library that can render 1000 fields on screen!

[GitHub @github]

A new GitHub Issues is coming this Fall, with better ways to plan, track, and manage projects. Sign up for the beta now. https://t.co/Pwh7ga83tR