Yeah. Something that I've told myself never to do but have continued to do for the last decade is to take some code that's in review ('cause reviewers be slow)

Yeah. Something that I've told myself never to do but have continued to do for the last decade is to take some code that's in review ('cause reviewers be slow) and then branch off of it and write something else. There is always "one little thing" in the code that's out for review, and merging that into the future work that you branched off is always a colossal pain. Every time I do it I regret it. (Is it just me, or is it not a social norm to treat code reviews like interrupts? I do that; I have Github connected to Slack and treat "I need my code reviewed" at the same level of priority as something like a production outage. It takes 5 minutes and unblocks an entire developer. But that favor seems rarely returned to me. I can usually get a fast review if I whine and nag, but it should just be automatic. And this isn't an artifact of any particular job, it's been like that at every job. I guess we could just stop doing code reviews, but they are pretty valuable for fixing dumb mistakes and sharing knowledge. But I digress...)