Re:Embrace the Grind
by emodendroket on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:21AM
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I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t really keep a sustained bust going for 8 hours anyway. Even if I had no meetings at all, I have to stop for the restroom, tea, food, or even just to give my body a break.
Re:Embrace the Grind
by dragonwriter on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:53AM
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IME, non-intellectual breaks don't break flow the same way as meetings where you need to use, but shift, intellectual focus. Bathroom, short-walk, and coffee/tea/snack breaks, aside from filling important bodily functions that don’t get filled by meetings, provide a pause that seems somewhat akin to a rest between sets in physical exercise.
Knowing about it doesn’t make it interrupt flow any less, unless you just avoid the kind of work that would require flow around it, which still imposes the same kind of productivity impact on intellectual “making” workers. [0]
[0] related: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html