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I feel you. It’s about the same for me. I can look at my phone, see work mails and teams notifications pile up and totally ignore that if I don’t want to look.

I feel you. It’s about the same for me. I can look at my phone, see work mails and teams notifications pile up and totally ignore that if I don’t want to look. Sometimes I want, sometimes I don’t and sometimes I read mail and decide to ignore them until Monday. But waking up and thinking about that bug or a solution for a difficult problem nervet stops. I think it may be something that happens when you make your passion also your job. I feel passionately about the code I write, the problems it solves or causes, and there’s nothing in my brain separating work from private code directly. It’s an extra step I have to do „manually“. But when reading the problems other described here, I feel very very lucky.

redisman 5y ago
What you could do is compensate for that by ending your day an hour early or by taking a long lunch break. You were working late or early unwittingly and solved a problem. I’ve learned to notice when I’m just spinning my wheels to hit that 8h for the day and now I just stop for the day when that happens. Then if something does come up I don’t end up doing overtime on top of everything. I don’t feel guilty since I get paid for results, not hours in front of my machine and because I know I can’t stop thinking about the problem in the shower or when I wake up in the middle of the night
- maverwa 5y ago
  Yeah, that’s pretty much what I do. It’s hard to put numbers on those things but I basically do what you suggested. Works great for me, and my employer and team seem to be very happy about my results. What more can I wish for?