If you can escape from the constant firefighting of interrupt-driven work, you can finish things on a predictable schedule. Unfortunately, you log on to work o

If you can escape from the constant firefighting of interrupt-driven work, you can finish things on a predictable schedule. Unfortunately, you log on to work on X, and it turns out customer A had a sev 1 outage, and youve got to scramble. Maybe once that is resolved, you can get back to X tomorrow. Except tomorrow, customer B reports some other bug, and you're dragged into triaging and reproducing that, while its still fresh. Now it's Wednesday, and you get one day to work on X. Thursday rolls around, and your day gets chewed up by another handful of meetings and status checks with A and B, also C came in with something. On Friday, you're worn out and reeling, and you realize project X never really got off the ground. Rinse and repeat until things just fall through the cracks.