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Am I an anomaly? I hear this often among engineers but I don't seem to have this issue. I can literally pick up from the line of code or document I left off fro
by hliyan 4y ago
Am I an anomaly? I hear this often among engineers but I don't seem to have this issue. I can literally pick up from the line of code or document I left off from last evening. The only type of work where I need to "rebuild context" is when dealing with financial spreadsheets.
- wccrawford 4y agoYou aren't unique. When I was younger, an interruption meant that I lost my flow, but not my train of thought. Now I'm a little older and have a brief pause where I think back to where I was, but it's still pretty quick.
- magicalhippo 4y agoI find it depends heavily on both the nature of the problem I'm working on and my mental state, and also the nature of what I switch to. If I haven't slept all night, context switches are total killers. If the problem requires me to keep in mind a ton of factors and dependencies while I develop (design or code), context switches can be quite bad. If the distraction require me to drag up a ton of context from a couple of weeks ago, then it can be quite bad. If I'm well rested and someone comes with a technical question that's hard but limited in scope, it's mostly fine and I can get back to it within a minute if not less.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoYes, I believe this is unusual.