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if you’re on here, I’d say you’re doing it. I play a lot of solitaire.
Whatever but remember you must look busy
So lots of typing and a serious expression?
Also has a multiplayer mode
Depends on the job? Water cooler talk, doze off for 2h. Play browser games or retro games, maybe an MMORPG or do 6h flights in MS Flight Simulator. Write your memoires, knit a scarf or read all the Witcher books… Run your drop-shipping side-business while at the computer anyway. “Fetch supplies.” Listen to podcasts or learn a new programming language. Polish all the fire extinguishers in the building. Read the newspaper. Or maybe re-decorate the office frequently. You can use the office printer for that. You can also use it to print out Mandala templates and then color them in yourself.
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If you’re forced to use Excel at all, there is an in spreadsheet version of Sonic the hedgehog.
I bring a full Kindle. I can start and stop whenever needed, pick back up where I left off.
Ever since college I’ve been really into taking notes by hand. Over a decade into the workforce, I haven’t stopped. Originally it was because I heard it helps you encode information more effectively for tests (and I was horrible at tests), but now I just do it because I love it.
It looks productive (and does help me), but it’s mostly just really satisfying to make marks on a page. It’s a good excuse to practice penmanship too (though I use a pencil, because it’s better for shading the occasional doodle (try to get one in every two pages hehe)).
I use it as a kind of rubber duck (increasingly needed since many “knowledge workers” are compelled to “chat” with their corporate minders rather than exchanging ideas…). I have this baroque system of writing tasks, Q&As, observations, and ideas. I’ve developed my own shorthand, as well as a variety of domain specific symbols that I find personally meaningful and beautiful. And this is all “notebook meta” that I can faff away on if I feel my attention slipping for work.
I could go on but yeah
I have never had to really worry about it. There was like a ticket queue and like you can always try to get updates with requests and projects.
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Try spacing your activities if possible. That way, slower times are much smaller and you should be able to do your activities more calmly.
Generally like to read a book.
