Most of my day is productive usually. Sometimes I'm not, and this is when I'm blocked, usually on a build system or similar (I actively avoid multitasking as it

Most of my day is productive usually. Sometimes I'm not, and this is when I'm blocked, usually on a build system or similar (I actively avoid multitasking as it is a good way to do multiple things poorly). If I'm blocked for a short while and can do very cognitively light work, I will likely work on it. If it will be longer, I can usually pivot to something else that needs to be worked on. I think it might be easy to be myopic with your definition though. If I'm pushing the company goals further, I'm being productive, even if I'm not learning. It might not give me more technical expertise, but it will help on my next review. And that helps with success. Helping others with their stuff might not help my learning either, but it also helps them and the company move forward. Meetings are an opportunity to distill and communicate information for target audiences. Scrum ceremonies are opportunities to similar, but also to find ways to balance business and team needs. Now, not all meetings are productive use of time, but I think people will tend to overly discount them. I feel I'm mostly productive for most of the day. I also spend some time reading and learning about things on the edges of what I know. I've done this for about a decade within one company. I've approximately tripled my salary and earned a lot of equity. I started with some poor knowledge of php and MySQL to many years later a principal developer influencing the designs of our distributed, scalable, and highly available systems. I also have introduced new technologies, strategies, and systems here. I've learned to work with others throughout the organization at different levels in different disciplines. I did not do any of this in a vacuum. I've had great peers, great managers, and others who are knowledgeable that I could learn from. No official mentors, just kind of the village to raise a child kind of thing. I'm on mobile and should get out of bed now. Hopefully. This stream of consciousness is a bit coherent and doesn't have too many typos and someone gets something out of it.