https://coderlegion.com/tag/habits Powered by Question2Answer https://coderlegion.com/10164/the-15-minute-buffer-rule <h3 id="here-s-a-simple-rule-that-protects-projects-from-stalling-">Here’s a simple rule that protects projects from stalling:</h3> <p><strong><em>Spend at least 15 minutes daily keeping the project map in your head.</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Not pushing hard. </li> <li>Not finishing tasks. </li> <li>Not making visible progress.</li> </ul> <p>Just enough to keep continuity alive.</p> <p>This is a buffer, not a productivity hack.</p> <p><strong><em>In those 15 minutes you might:</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>read the last thing you wrote,</li> <li>open the project and add a single comment,</li> <li>sketch a solution you won’t implement yet,</li> <li>rename a variable,</li> <li>write a TODO that clarifies the next step.</li> </ul> <p>Sometimes you’ll do “nothing important”.</p> <p>And that’s fine. Because the real output is not the task - it’s that tomorrow you can continue without friction.</p> Articles https://coderlegion.com/10164/the-15-minute-buffer-rule Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:40:31 +0000