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Ability to be successful while functioning like this is wholly dependent on your role and the culture of the company you're working for or leading.

• chubot 13y ago
  Sure, but don't you have control over your role? Maybe not in the short term, but in the long term you can take steps to move into a role or job where you have bigger free blocks of time. You just have to decide if that's what you value over, say, money, prestige, etc. Paul Graham wrote a nice essay where he mentioned that "prestige" is basically a way to get people to do shitty work. What I'm saying doesn't really work for managers or leaders, because your job boils down to talking to people, and e-mail is a big part of that. But it works really well for programmers.
  • eitally 13y ago
    Yes, generally speaking ... but I'm in management and was speaking from that perspective. My apologies for being unclear.