So what I did working for Peter Thiel (and later Elon Musk) funded company was I knew my interruptions had a price. But I had a work ethic: I had to be workin

So what I did working for Peter Thiel (and later Elon Musk) funded company was I knew my interruptions had a price. But I had a work ethic: I had to be working all the time I was paid to work, and wait when it made sense. I was also paid to wait, but it too had a price. There was a balance. And the wage was really good, I had no motivation to cheat them, like I did when I was getting paid way under the Chilean minimum wage under Lamar Editores (Niccolo Martelli) in Santiago and was losing money from working there. Something had to give, that was an expensive job, it would have been better for my account book to stay home but I was being coerced to work by the people around me. So what I did was have three avenues I could advance in the projects with which I was tasked. There was a machine shop and there were tools, I had prior experience with basics, but there were moments I knew I needed to ask how to proceed. Either because the results depended on how I went about it, or because the avenue I took would simplify the work, or because I knew I didn't know. And I did some more work, took more measurements, to understand the roadblock well, figure out how to ask the right question about it. I noted that roadblock, then I would start on a different line of work, until I came up with another roadblock. I noted that too, and switched to a different task. And when I came to the third and final roadblock, I would then take all three roadblocks to my eng manager--and for sure I interrupted him in the middle of something else, but giving him some time to change focus to the interruptions--and I asked the three right questions I had stored up for all three roadblocks in that single interruption. And we took like 14-30 minutes to review all the roadblocks, walking around the work site, see the constructions, discuss questions in full, at the beginning I learned faster and then later I even came up with ideas as questions double-checking if they were OK, but after the questions were addressed I was ready to work for 2/3 hours before interrupting him again. Few interruptions, batch mode, and like 3 minutes idle (waiting for him to be available when interrupting him) every few hours, and as I gained experience the hours I could work alone got longer and longer.