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   toni✨🧠 (toni@zug.network)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 06:58:21 JST toni✨🧠

   Unpopular opinion: As a software developer, if you are working in a way where someone interrupting you will cause an hour of wasted time, you’re doing a bad job. [1]

   Write stuff down, refactor the code so you never need to do such complicated tasks in the first place, take regular breaks. Start by doing 25/5 pomodoros, and if that makes your work harder, think about why and make the necessary changes.

   When I work on complex tasks, I can still make an incremental commit every five to ten minutes, if I want to. If someone interrupts me, I need a minute to get back into it. (ADHD notwithstanding, that can make it harder on a bad brain day.)

   Not saying that context switches are unproblematic, but a good setup can make them less terrible.

   [1] The prime directive “everyone is doing the best job they can, given the circumstances they are in” applies.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 13:12:11 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     to me, it has nothing to do with being able to pick up the pieces of information, it's about the state of flow that takes a while to set in, and the time it takes to recover from the frustration of being pulled out of it for poor reasons. I feel like a diver being required to suddenly come to the surface without going through depressurizing. I guess not everyone experiences that amount of frustration out of it (I'm pretty sure it's related with my spot in the spectrum), but I don't know that people in general can get into flow quickly (I can't). thanks for being more inclusive in the different perspectives you take before making a judgment