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I worked really too much today. I had 10 meetings!!

• andrei_says_ 5y ago
  Somehow I count meetings as … meetings and not work. More like pauses between productive work efforts. Same with communication. Only when I produce something tangible I feel that I’m working. I know this is kind of silly but I feel like sitting in a meeting and getting paid is like cheating. Or replying to an email. In no way I’m suggesting that time and attention are not valuable - it’s just that these activities feel trivially easy compared to the cognitive load of coding.
  • watwut 5y ago
    Write down notes from meeting for yourself and try to remember what was said - the tl;Dr. It will make you feel more like working. But also, I found that actually useful in the long term. I did that as experiment and then then some months later I found myself using all that stuff. Not everything was useful, but a good chunk of it was.
  • f6v 5y ago
    > I know this is kind of silly but I feel like sitting in a meeting and getting paid is like cheating. Or replying to an email. I felt disturbance in the force. As if all the product managers in the world screamed at the same time.