Finding myself in similar positions, I have made a few observations: - most requests aren't urgent, people are impatient - identify common requests and solve

Finding myself in similar positions, I have made a few observations: - most requests aren't urgent, people are impatient - identify common requests and solve them at the root (tooling, documentation, training, delegation, etc) - split my day in to blocks [0] - block an hour per day for code reviews - a list containing little bits and pieces like updating some documentation, helping here, asking something there and do them in-between or when I feel unmotivated, etc - unapologetically close slack/teams/email/etc when working on something that requires your attention [0] https://doist.com/blog/time-blocking/ https://doist.com/blog/time-blocking/