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Re:The pointlessness of daily standups by thawaway1837 on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:45AM (#21178688)
The deep flow disturbance can be caused by any sort of communication. So basically, that’s an argument against communication, as opposed to being an argument against standups.

If anything, by being at a fixed time, either at the start, or the end of a team’s day, it’s far easier to prevent a standup from disrupting deep work than a Slack message would be.

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Re:The pointlessness of daily standups by zorked on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:14AM (#21178839)
You know it will disrupt you so you never even start the deep work. Victory!
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Re:The pointlessness of daily standups by kchamplewski on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:28AM (#21178904)
Except async communication doesn't disrupt deep flow if done properly since it should be simply ignored until flow breaks or pauses naturally.

A slack message won't disrupt my deep work because I'll have notifications turned off, unless it's extremely urgent in which case it would be too urgent to leave until a standup anyway.

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