{"id":14,"date":"2019-04-03T20:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/?p=14"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:21:56","slug":"the-healthy-and-unhealthy-side-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akhmees.info\/en\/2019\/04\/03\/the-healthy-and-unhealthy-side-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"The healthy and unhealthy side projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It all started when my friend Tonya Mork<\/a> posted the following tweet about focus on twitter the other day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tweet triggered something I've been battling with for a long time which is applying focus on side projects. I have a hard time choosing which side project to do. Tonya replied with an interesting take:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So according to Tonya, there are two types of side projects. One of them is healthy, and the other is not so healthy (why just cannot I say bad? ). Let's try to visualize to digest it a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Side projects as per Tonya Mork. Illustrated by the author. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What about an example? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is how I internalized and digested what Tonya just said . Let's assume this how the human brains looks ( I have a feeling that I will be murdered by neurologist)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How the human brains look as per the author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If I understood Tonya correctly, then the healthy mode for side projects would be something like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Healthy side projects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As you can see above, we are hitting different neurons. Therefore there could be a possible stimulation that get generated by these kind<\/g> of activities which Toney mentioned like drawing, writing etc<\/g>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where an unhealthy mode of side projects could look like this <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bad side projects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What's happening here that we are diverting the energy from the vital work and hitting the same neuron. An excellent example of that if you are a coder by day and your side project at night is coding as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I still have a couple of questions:
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