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Totally agree with what you said here. There's no reason you can't start something ambitious in the morning even with a meeting in a few hours. Sure you'll pay
by malfist 5y ago
Totally agree with what you said here. There's no reason you can't start something ambitious in the morning even with a meeting in a few hours.
Sure you'll pay the cost of context switching, but that's 15 minutes at the max.
Not working because you've got a meeting in the near future is just not working. You don't have to do everything all at once. You don't have to have 100% efficiency or 0%
- w4llstr33t 5y agoI've found that it can take longer than 15 minutes to get back in the groove. There is certainly something that happens while coding, i.e. "being in the zone". In my experience, it can take some time to get back to that high productivity, high focus zone. Getting back to a low or medium productivity is easier. Although I agree that just because there's a meeting in the afternoon, it's not like you can't start something big (could also start something small, or chunk up the big task), however, I think the article still has something useful to remind managers, even today.