<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Productivity · Press Any Key</title><link>https://pressanykey.tech/en/tags/productivity/</link><description>Software, systems, AI and whatever else crosses my mind. Articles, podcast, videos, tutorials and labs on architecture, cloud, DevOps and systems.</description><language>en-US</language><copyright>© 2026 Lino Figueroa</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://pressanykey.tech/en/tags/productivity/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Multi-Project Hell: On Three Teams at Once and Truly on None</title><link>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/multi-project-hell-on-three-teams-at-once-and-truly-on-none/articulo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/multi-project-hell-on-three-teams-at-once-and-truly-on-none/articulo/</guid><category>Article</category><description>Why being spread across four or five projects at once doesn't make you more efficient — it just leaves you shallow on all of them, according to the science of context switching.</description></item><item><title>Meetings That Should Have Been a Pull Request</title><link>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/meetings-that-should-have-been-a-pull-request/articulo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/meetings-that-should-have-been-a-pull-request/articulo/</guid><category>Article</category><description>Why so many technical decisions that could fit in three paragraphs of a PR end up becoming an hour-long video call with ten people and a Head of Something.</description></item><item><title>The cult of urgency: when everything was needed yesterday and tomorrow will be worse</title><link>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-cult-of-urgency-when-everything-was-needed-yesterday-and-tomorrow-will-be-worse/articulo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/the-cult-of-urgency-when-everything-was-needed-yesterday-and-tomorrow-will-be-worse/articulo/</guid><category>Article</category><description>False urgency has become the default operating mode in tech companies, with a real cost in productivity and mental health.</description></item><item><title>Toxic metrics: story points, commits, and other creative ways to fool yourself</title><link>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/toxic-metrics-story-points-commits-and-other-ways-to-fool-yourself/articulo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://pressanykey.tech/en/temas/toxic-metrics-story-points-commits-and-other-ways-to-fool-yourself/articulo/</guid><category>Article</category><description>Why measuring productivity with story points, commits, or lines of code destroys teams, and what metrics actually make sense.</description></item></channel></rss>