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And then also enjoy the benefits of your kids barging in on a meeting and distracting you, it's the best distraction in the world. Perhaps the first N times.
by dagw 7y ago
And then also enjoy the benefits of your kids barging in on a meeting and distracting you, it's the best distraction in the world.
Perhaps the first N times. When it happens the N+1st time it is no longer the "best distraction in the world"
- circlefavshape 7y agoWhat? Your kids barging in a meeting might be the "best distraction in the world" an arbitrary number of times, and then after that it no longer is? AFAICT this comment is indistinguishable from saying nothing at all
- dagw 7y agoWhat I'm saying is it might be cute the first time it happens, but for all people there exists a finite limit where it stops being cute. That limit however is different for different people. I would however feel fairly comfortable saying that N<=15 in an 8 hour period for the vast majority of people.
- SllX 7y agoMate, he’s saying that as much as you love your kids, it gets old at some point to have them constantly interrupting your meetings. Sometimes you want to finish the meeting and be done with it, so you can go ahead and actually spend some quality time with them without any nagging concerns leftover from work.
- jacobkg 7y agoWhen I was interviewing for my current job (to stop being remote) my 4 year old son barged in and started climbing all over me for the second half of a 30 minute video phone screen. That the CTO didn’t bat an eye at this was one strong indicator that she would be an amazing boss (she is)
- RussianCow 7y agoThat almost sounds like it would be a great way to screen potential companies! (But I don't have kids so that makes it difficult to implement for me.)