[aaisola]

How do you balance the want/willingness to do deep work with the external pressures of the tech world that result in new fires emerging constantly?

[jyriand]

Doing deep work in early mornings should fix your problem. Usually the fires start after the managers/boss/teammates arrive in the office. In the morning you just can ignore everything because no one is expecting you to be available.

[sghiassy]

I switched roles in my company after being put in a role that was more firefighter than thinker. Some people like that work. I didn’t