Re:Ask HN: How do you manage to work less than 8 hours despi...
by Aeolun on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:59AM
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I don’t really get in a flow state any more unless I turn off all email and chat. In those cases it can last up to 4 hours.
That happens maybe 20% of all days though, and people don’t really enjoy it, so it’s mostly something I do for my own sanity.
The rest of my day is spent showing up in meetings and trying to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot, which involves a lot of back and forth.
When in the office, I think I regularly made 9 hour days, but at home they’re at most 7.5 hours, mostly due the constraints imposed by having to pick up my son from daycare.
That happens maybe 20% of all days though, and people don’t really enjoy it, so it’s mostly something I do for my own sanity.
The rest of my day is spent showing up in meetings and trying to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot, which involves a lot of back and forth.
When in the office, I think I regularly made 9 hour days, but at home they’re at most 7.5 hours, mostly due the constraints imposed by having to pick up my son from daycare.