Chiming in, although most has already been said: - noise-canceling headphones with ambiant noise / music. I like Focus@will for this, some of their tracks are

Chiming in, although most has already been said: - noise-canceling headphones with ambiant noise / music. I like Focus@will for this, some of their tracks are spot-ok for me. - a large slot of time in which I know I can work uninterrupted. Blocking 2 hours in my agenda does the trick, any shorter and I have trouble motivating myself to get started. - no distractions. I close Slack and my email client, put my phone away or in “don’t disturb” mode, close my slacking-off browser (I use FF for most of my browsing, including mails/blogs/comic strips, and Chrome for a few websites and when I need to specifically use Google; closing FF effectively leaves me with stack overflow, trello and google). I also explained to my coworkers that headphones on = don’t disturb me unless the building is on fire (and even then let me finish writing my method first) If getting large-enough blocks of time is an issue, you can point your manager to Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s schedule by Paul Graham