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    1. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 7 Sep 2018
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      Unpopular opinion: to really make it as a senior/lead engineer, you have to get good at soaking up interruptions, only managing or minimizing them for others not yourself. You just have to adapt to working productively in smaller time slices and handling context switches. Tough!

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    2. Stewart Allen‏ @stew_us 7 Sep 2018
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      True, but dam it can be tough. I sometimes just need uninterrupted hours to dig in and deeply understand the problem at hand.

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      Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 7 Sep 2018
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      Me too, and I increasingly find myself doing it outside of regular working hours, or on a plane etc.

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        2. Leigh McCulloch‏ @___leigh___ 7 Sep 2018
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          It's important to not only get better at handling interrupts and context switches, but also to plan focus time and build up others who make great decisions without us. Adding hours to the work day won't scale.

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        3. Leigh McCulloch‏ @___leigh___ 7 Sep 2018
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          That's not necessarily easy, I think it's just a part of learning, just like learning how to connect switch is part of it. But I think it's important to acknowledge it's something to work on just like everything else.

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        1.  💧Gavin Harris‏ @gavlaaharris 7 Sep 2018
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          The hours 5-9 feature heavily for these tasks.

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        1. Aníbal Rojas (en)‏ @anibalrojas 8 Sep 2018
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          Careful. That's one of the things that helped me burn out. As I didn't update my definition of "productive" when I switched from Programmer to Manager I ended working long hours on nights and weekend to "compensate".

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          I get "real work" done between 5:30 and 9 a.m. and I'm becoming diligent about blocking one day a week without meetings

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