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> Oddly enough, scheduled distractions may be worse than unscheduled ones. If you know you have a meeting in an hour, you don't even start working on something
by mhartl 19y ago
> Oddly enough, scheduled distractions may be worse than unscheduled ones. If you know you have a meeting in an hour, you don't even start working on something hard.
God, how I wish more people understood this. It might seem like programmers overreact to even the most minor demands on their time---"What's the big deal? It's only a half-hour meeting!"---but a half-hour meeting can easily kill several hours of productivity.
- hhm 19y agoJust like Marc Andreessen's "don't keep a schedule": http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid.html http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid.html
- staunch 19y agoWhen I do have enough time to do some work, but I know it will get cut short by a scheduled event, it causes an almost non-stop sense of anxiety in the back of my mind. It's seriously distracting and feels horrible.
- jamongkad 19y agoSame here! especially when your in the zone churning out code faster than Eminem can bust a rhyme. I love it when that happens and really hate it when someone pokes in and requests some idiotic update form so that your boss/manager can feel better about himself....
- albertcardona 19y agoIt's about time PHB notice this tiny little fact: they are the only ones looking forward to any sort of meeting. Keeping a "this year I will do this and that" schedule is about as much schedule as it was ever required.