Re:Ask HN: What do you waste too much time on as a developer?
by Lewisham on Saturday July 17, 2010 @04:50PM
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Email.
Email is the bane of my existence. Most of the proposed email deluge handling systems advocate dealing with email for set time periods. This is fine, as a personal thing, but my time with email is mostly spent spinning wheels because I am waiting for a reply to something I need. I don't want those people dealing with email in set time periods, I want the information now! I want their workflow to be severely impacted :)
Which then leads to the necessity of phone calls, which is an even greater time sink.
I ended up resolving to just walk to the person's office if its < 15 minutes and treat it as a keyboard break. Now I'm back in grad school and work from home a lot, so I'm back to waiting for emails again.
Email is the bane of my existence. Most of the proposed email deluge handling systems advocate dealing with email for set time periods. This is fine, as a personal thing, but my time with email is mostly spent spinning wheels because I am waiting for a reply to something I need. I don't want those people dealing with email in set time periods, I want the information now! I want their workflow to be severely impacted :)
Which then leads to the necessity of phone calls, which is an even greater time sink.
I ended up resolving to just walk to the person's office if its < 15 minutes and treat it as a keyboard break. Now I'm back in grad school and work from home a lot, so I'm back to waiting for emails again.