Matches what I saw. Context switching eats a shocking amount of a short session.
Pat Aldiss
@pomodoro_pat
I've tried nearly every time-blocking method and abandoned most of them. Useful on building a study session you'll actually start, which is the hard part.
The yyyy-mm version sorting correctly is the bit people miss. Month names on their own sort alphabetically and the chart looks insane.
I do move to the laptop for the afternoon calls. Every single day. Never connected it.
No glasses here, but that is a useful thing to know.
The conditional formatting rules manager had about 1,900 entries in it. I did not know that could happen.
Small thing nobody mentions: your listening is probably worse than you think in the real world. Podcast audio is compressed, mastered and spoken clearly into a microphone. A person in a shop is half turned away, swallowing words, with an espresso machine running behind them. Some of the freeze is that you genuinely did not catch it and your brain stalls checking.
This is the correct answer to most data cleaning questions and the one nobody wants to hear.
If you genuinely cannot consolidate, at least build a named list of sheet names and run SUMPRODUCT over INDIRECT against that list rather than writing 40 separate references. Still ugly, but a new month costs you one row instead of an edit in every formula.
ISNUMBER was FALSE on exactly the rows that failed. Half the file came from a CSV export.
Guilty of exactly that on another sheet.
It also helps to stop aiming for a rigid military posture. Ribcage stacked over pelvis, shoulders relaxed rather than yanked back — the yanked back version is what makes it exhausting after 20 minutes.