I can't trust people to do what I need, so I invert - if you can find me, you can have me. And then I pamper myself with work from home days and firewall the a

I can't trust people to do what I need, so I invert - if you can find me, you can have me. And then I pamper myself with work from home days and firewall the access, either with tech or with good habits. Close the email, slack. Boss has a phone number, bosses make good default routes to get to me. I don't do the pamper thing a lot, because I want to be available. I budget 20% of my week for heads down, inaccessible. I prefer it in 4 or 8 hour chunks because it can take me 2 hours to get into the zone. Once I'm there, I'm getting the majority of my output done in a week. On the weeks where I do 50% heads down or more, I find I start hurting myself. I can do it for a few weeks, maybe a month or two, but if I run in the red zone for an entire quarter, I took too much and now I'm going to have a bad next quarter. I'm not a 10xer, I need to pace myself to get my 100% in and have something left over to help everyone else out, too.