My Secret to Designing a WordPress Theme

March 23, 2009

turnofftwitter

Turning off Twitter really, really, really works.

That’s my secret sauce.

In fact, to do anything remotely productive these days requires me to turn that darn thing off completely… I’m moving to a point where I need to work on a box that doesn’t have any desktop apps installed and blocking Twitter.com on my wireless router.

That’s how I get it done.

How do you stay productive living in a Twitter-world?

In Technology, Wordpress
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20 responses to My Secret to Designing a WordPress Theme

  1. Matt Carlisle March 23, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    John — I totally agree. Would like to see if any research has been conducted on productivity lost during the workday. I suspect many companies will begin to create policies concerning use of Twitter.

  2. CoffeeWithChris March 23, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    productive… huh?

  3. mahawkins March 23, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    Bugger. I thought I was going to peak into a new found way of doing things or gather some tips on how to tighten up my designs, but nope you go on and lead me down a stupid goose chase that all started on… Twitter.
    *hanging my head in shame.

  4. human3rror March 23, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    i'm sure “people” are doing it… somewhere…

  5. human3rror March 23, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    yah

  6. human3rror March 23, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    ;) puaha. more of that real stuff to come…

  7. Anna Meadows March 23, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    BLAST! Twitter can be very distracting… it's another shiny thing that takes my focus off my to do list! But most of the time if I get "in the zone" it's not too hard to get things knocked out! Have you registered with weFollow?

  8. fmckinnon March 23, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    actually, sometimes twitter helps me be MORE productive, if I'm getting input and answers. Otherwise, unless I'm doing web-work, I'm best turning it ALL off – especially Mail.app … I just can't bring myself to ignore that red circle with numbers in it.

  9. human3rror March 23, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    tempting… i know…!

  10. human3rror March 23, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    yeah. i have. i'm not sure how much of value it'll be… what do you think ?

  11. davidnorman March 24, 2009 at 12:11 am

    you mean, you can turn off twitter? how is that even possible?

  12. Jonathan March 24, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Twitter clients; Tweetdeck, DestroyTwitter, etc.

  13. Jonathan March 24, 2009 at 12:29 am

    I turn off Twitter, mute the cell phone, put on some headphones and listen to a little music to distract me from my surroundings and keep me focused on the task at hand.

  14. Aaron March 24, 2009 at 1:33 am

    The wife is more of a distraction than Twitter.

  15. human3rror March 23, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    … pwned.

  16. rongehrke March 24, 2009 at 2:30 am

    I have had to cut twitter out totally. I cannot figure out how to use it productively and remain productive. I love to hear others thoughts.

  17. theschu March 24, 2009 at 5:08 am

    The truth hurts sometimes :-/

  18. Phillip Gibb March 24, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    get all the resources I need then switch off the laptop's wifi,
    he he he
    ok not always practical

  19. rhettsmith March 25, 2009 at 5:24 am

    shoot…I knew that but need to be reminded..sigh.

  20. Conner_Byrd March 28, 2009 at 3:48 am

    I got depressed last week. I went through all this work to get connected. Found Tweetdeck…then you turned me on to DestroyTwitter…man I was a real rocknrolla and then…last week i was like "I need to get some work done!"
    Now, I've got to turn off DestroyTwitter and turn my updates Off to really get churning at work :)