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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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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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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The hours 5-9 feature heavily for these tasks.
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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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