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You probably seen this advice before but just in case, here is what worked for me (and should work for anyone, even without ADHD) 1. block time in your calenda
by eranation 4y ago
You probably seen this advice before but just in case, here is what worked for me (and should work for anyone, even without ADHD)
1. block time in your calendar, and let your peers and managers know that you are "blocking time to do your actual job"
2. there are slack plugins that auto set you as away / turn off notifications when you have an outlook / calendar meeting
3. use a pomodoro timer
4. focusatwill powertools with noise canceling headphones
5. important - lot's of the distraction is due to FOMO, a simple question that someone asks to get unblocked becomes a forced "meeting without a meeting" where people feel like if they don't respond then their voice will not be heard. This needs talking to the team and coming up with some ground rules to avoid it. You want people to use slack to get unblocked, you don't want people to force others into a FOMO based hour long thread.
6. Agree not to use slack as a ticketing system / documentation system. If someone reports a bug on slack, great, now it's the reporter's responsibility to put it in GitHub Issues / Linear / JIRA etc. Slack is terrible as a ticketing system. If you need something to get done, open a ticket.
7. Your last sentence makes a lot of sense, opening it 2-3x times a day is a great idea.