I identified the 7 deadly sins of engineering productivity so you don't have to

Coding isn't the problem; these habits are. Eliminate friction like context switching and decision fatigue by optimizing your system for true impact.

Most engineers are not tired because they write too much code. They are tired because they fight too much friction. We often treat productivity as the ability to do more things, doing them faster. In software engineering, this definition is wrong. True productivity is about solving hard problems effectively.

There are invisible habits that drain your executive function battery before you even write a single line of code. We must stop optimizing for busy work and start optimizing for impact.

Productivity isn’t about discipline. It’s system design.