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by gherkinnn 2276 days ago
Finding myself in similar positions, I have made a few observations:

- most requests aren't urgent, people are impatient

- identify common requests and solve them at the root (tooling, documentation, training, delegation, etc)

- split my day in to blocks [0]

- block an hour per day for code reviews

- a list containing little bits and pieces like updating some documentation, helping here, asking something there and do them in-between or when I feel unmotivated, etc

- unapologetically close slack/teams/email/etc when working on something that requires your attention

[0] https://doist.com/blog/time-blocking/