For people who must have non-stick pans, go with OXO and nothing else. They're PFAS & PFOA-free and tested by America's Test Kitchen to be the best non-stick pans (and I can anecdotally back that up).
Never go with ceramic for non-stick as it's a crappy compromise
Mouse acceleration: to disable it I've been using SteelSeries ExactMouse Tool (https://steelseries.com/engine -> expand Miscellaneous at the very bottom).
It's very lightweight and I just install it once and never think about it again.
Mouse scrolling: I always found this to be a bad experience on OSX/macOS so I've been using Smooze. It allows you to set the scroll curve to your own liking. It has other features that I don't use and although it's not free, iirc it was cheap and definitely worth it.
Window management: a lot of others have mentioned great tools like Rectangle, but I've found Moom to be slightly better for my use cases. I prefer it over Rectangle (although Moom doesn't have window snapping so I actually use both) because you can set a custom grid e.g. 12x12 and have windows resize anywhere on the grid. With Rectangle, you can only choose from the (many) presets but unfortunately no customization.
You might want to look at the Command-line options[1] for Rectangle. For instance, if you want the "AlmostMiximized" size to be not so big, you can set that to something of your choice, similar to the 12x12. Hope that helps and you can reduce to one app instead of two. :-)
Disabling mouse acceleration that way hasn't worked right since Catalina at least, maybe even since Mojave. You can test it with a high-resolution gaming mouse: slide it across your mousepad once as slowly as you can, and then flick it across once. There's still a difference in how far the cursor travels, even with SteelSeries ExactMouse.
The only tools I know of that actually work for this (if you comoletely disable speed/sensitivity controls as well as acceleration) are SteerMouse and CursorSense, which use some kind of driver hack: https://www.plentycom.jp/en/index.html
I also do ~4 hours of concentrated work first thing in the morning. As my day progresses, my head gets filled with all kinds of shit (good and bad), and it's really detrimental to not just focus but overall output.
In the morning, my mind is fresh and more-or-less distraction free and I feel hyper-focused even without caffeine. Also, by doing a lot in the morning, motivation stacks up and "wins" convert into more "wins" throughout the day
After that long session, I'll usually take an hour break. I try to make sure the last half hour of the break isn't filled with any instantly gratifying content (reddit, yt, etc) so my mind isn't chasing another hit of dopamine when I resume my work. Anecdotally, I feel like this helps me
Whenever I loath doing a task, I tell myself to do it for 5 minutes and if I still don't feel like doing it, then I can do something else. It's a pretty common technique and works wonderfully for me. Something about my pride and not wanting to give up after 5 minutes helps me power through
