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This critique doesn't really make sense. `sleep 60` Because one interruption takes x amount of time to deal with and the other interruption takes x + 60 secon

• voidhorse 8y ago
  That’s a fair point, but the original complaint was about the break in thought flow or activity immersion. That’s going to occur whether you sleep 60 or sleep 10. That happens the moment you decide to interrupt your focus by looking at the chat. Of course there are some roles that require immediate attention to chat messages when they come in, for example if you’re on call or something, but for the majority of jobs you don’t have to answer right away. Instead of focusing on our own consumption patterns and lack of discipline/restraint we like to blame others because it’s easier—if you’re in the middle of something wait to get to the chat until you’ve reached a good break point. This is why it’s also good to adopt rules of use for different communications tech, e.g. x chat channel is to be avoided except for emergencies, or DMs are assumed to be casual and important stuff must be relegated to certain channels etc etc.