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I once walked among London's canals and parks for 8 hours in a day and wrote a script I'd been meaning to write for years that visualised in ascii the degradation of server threads from log files.

Every time I got stuck, I stopped and walked again. I think I only did about 2 hours of 'work' that day, but it would have taken me weeks to do under normal circumstances and distractions. I slept like a log that night.

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How did you stop to write code? Did you write your code in a notebook? On a smartphone? Or did you walk with a laptop in a bag that you would take out when needed?

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The latter.

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Oh, and I resolved to take a day off work a week to walk London and write. So I work a four-day week and do just that :)

Also, the script proved immensely useful at debugging appserver crashes.