This is a hilarious and amazing tip. Another way I've tried to tackle this is on day 1 of a job - I've blocked out a huge chunk (4 hours) of my daily calendar

This is a hilarious and amazing tip. Another way I've tried to tackle this is on day 1 of a job - I've blocked out a huge chunk (4 hours) of my daily calendar of "Coding Time - No Meetings, No Slack, No Email" before anyone could tell me no.