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For me the single most distracting thing from deep work is people talking in an open office especially loudly like a conference call on speaker. HN and whatnot
by tedmiston 8y ago
For me the single most distracting thing from deep work is people talking in an open office especially loudly like a conference call on speaker.
HN and whatnot can be contained. Noise-cancelling headphones, turned way up, with some sort of non-lyrical music playing only does so much. Sometimes I move away to quieter parts of the office in spaces like call booths to do deep work.
- nraynaud 8y agoTo me it feels more complicated: sometimes I can tune out discussions and sometimes I can't.
- dasmoth 8y agoDiscussions that are peripherally related to something you’re working on can be dramatically worse than something random. Hence people who can work in coffee shops but not open-plan offices.
- thx4allthestuff 8y agoVery similar to the issue I suffer from. If I overhear co-workers discussing a problem within my domain, my brain just goes right on ahead without me and starts chipping away at it. After a few minutes I might find myself staring blankly at a screen full of code while my brain is somewhere else entirely.