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by mewpmewp2
662 days ago
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To whom? For my sanity and productivity that's the most important at least. I only enjoy working when I am in that flow state captured by the problem without having to worry about interruptions. This is when I provide most actual value and also get most enjoyment out of work myself. Everything that takes me out of it feels like annoying and frustrating interruptions.
And usually I have to then try to not show my frustration and act like I am happy to do small talk or whatever, so I wouldn't seem rude. |
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Optimizing for you vs the team is often not the goal.
"This is when I provide most actual value and also get most enjoyment out of work myself."
In most companies, it's much more valuable to have a team productive than a single individual, even if it comes at a cost to the individuals.
IE Assume a team of 10, and that working like you suggest provides 1.5x productivity for you, but you working like this cost 0.15x to each other person on the team because you are slower at responding, etc. If it had no effect on anyone else that would be super weird (it would mean nobody depended on anyone, etc. Basically that being a team didn't matter).
Let's assume when you don't work like this, it cost nobody else anything, but is really crappy for you (0.6x)
With you working like this, team productivity is 1.5x+(9*0.85x)= 9.15x. Without you working like this, team productivity is 0.6x + 9x = 9.6x.
Obviously it's different at different numbers and tradeoffs, but optimizing for individual productivity, when it costs things for teams, can often end up a net loss. Not always of course.
You can argue it costs nobody else anything but i think that would honestly be a silly argument. We should admit there are positives and negatives to the tradeoffs here, and sometimes the aggregate works out and sometimes it doesn't.