Your comment just helped me realize another benefit of my current practice of keeping a “lab journal” of what I work on when I program. Looking back at my last

Your comment just helped me realize another benefit of my current practice of keeping a “lab journal” of what I work on when I program. Looking back at my last few weeks of work, the few times I was interrupted, I was free to leave my task and deal with the interruption, because I had my current task and its context safely recorded for me to reload when I get back. My journal-keeping system is described here: https://lobste.rs/s/gfemhn/software_engineers_should_keep_lab_notebooks/comments/ikqpnw https://lobste.rs/s/gfemhn/software_engineers_should_keep_la....