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Heavily guard your morning time, and don't even open your email/chat programs until closer to lunch. At least for me (maybe it's the caffeine rush), but that mo
by briHass 3y ago
Heavily guard your morning time, and don't even open your email/chat programs until closer to lunch. At least for me (maybe it's the caffeine rush), but that morning block is the most valuable/productive time of my day and going down a rabbit hole early can kill the rest of my day's accomplishments.
In my previous role, I worked with a primarily West Coast team (being East Cost, myself), and it was wonderful having that first 3 hours of uninterrupted time to do deep work before the 'other' stuff crept in. The downside, of course, was then needing to be on-point in meetings where everyone else was caffeinated/ready-to-go and my brain was losing steam.
- blowski 3y agoI used to work like this with email, to the point that I’d intentionally not sync emails for a few hours. But in my company, everything is done through “SlackOps”. Incidents (including alerts) line management duties, deployments, getting access to environments. Plus lots of information I need is in Slack. Maybe some combo of Zapier, extracting into local text, and strict observance of non-slack time and I could make it work.
- briHass 3y agoI used Slack at that prior role, and I know I had a bunch of notifications rules and schedules to mute channels that didn't require immediate action. As often written about, Slack can be a productivity killer with the constant chatter on various channels. I also aggressively pruned my channel memberships to ensure I actually needed to see all the chatter contained in them.