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Allow read access to your calendar for teammates and instruct them to override your "Thinking time" slots in situations where the matter is urgent.
by dboreham 3y ago
Allow read access to your calendar for teammates and instruct them to override your "Thinking time" slots in situations where the matter is urgent.
- 1024core 3y agoThat's what I do, and it works very well.
- bgirard 3y agoThere's several issues with this: * I work with too many people to reasonably instruct them of this preference and expect them to follow it. * The definition of urgent is highly subjective. What's urgent to one person isn't to someone else. * Some will be more aggressive and book over it, while others will be more passive/shy like junior engineers. You're now further rewarding aggressive behavior over passive behavior. But more importantly non-urgent meetings are still important. If everyone does this then the minimum turn around time for engineering tasks needing help/consensus between 3 engineers goes up from a few hours to a few days. You compensate this by juggling more tasks. I think in practice the downstream problems are much worse than the original problem you're solving. I prefer to just decline any meetings that aren't a good use of my time.