[DesiLurker]

personally as a senior engineer & tech-lead in many past jobs I am very bothered by fragmentation of my time. I NEED a block of time to get serious work done especially if its not fully defined yet (i.e.. not like go code this function but more like add a service component). I have not yet read PG's blog on that but its something similar to what I track as in devtime-fragmentation-index. I wish there was a calendar plugin that tracks something like this as there is one to report total meeting time already.

Problem is its hard to convince managers that there was minimal work done this week because I did 3 hours of meetings each day but it was all spread out. its worse with non-technically sound managers because they need constant Q&A.

There was a time when I was working super late because of all the meetings and slack discussions in day time then to do actual coding work I had to find time later in night and my sleep schedule was getting messed up. this persisted until I introduced some hard boundaries. all in all I recommend blocking off time in schedule but thats not a scalable solution unless whole team agrees to it. plus dont get me started on different timezones working together.

[diracs_stache]

> they need constant Q&A

Wants daily 20-30 minute stand-up/tag-up

Constantly bombards DMs since understanding is weak/research skills are poor

Pull engineers into fringe meetings "Just in case" (can't multi-task since full attention is needed to prevent any harm being done)